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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...growth of the free mind and the perfecting of standards of thought and inquiry." It is doubtless toward this goal that the present tendencies are merging--for Professor Dewey himself declares that much progress has been made in the last quarter of a century. Yet rather than wait for the slow if inevitable triumph of liberalism and its methods over conservative reactionaries it is conceivably possible to aid its progress by attacking those causes of illiberalism which have been identified...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MATTER OF HABIT | 5/28/1924 | See Source »

...Americans who favor the measure do so not from any love of this bill in itself, but because they want attention and aid for disabled veterans and decline to wait another six years for a saner program. President Coolidge's veto message declaring the bill "economically unsound and morally unjust" expresses to the letter the sincere belief of the overwhelming majority. The new legislation owes its impetus and success at this time, to the desire of an able, if unscrupulous, opposition to discomfit the President by forcing his hand. Their, act, after succeeding in only the latter point, is rapidly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 5/26/1924 | See Source »

Question: "Dear Senator: I am afflicted with Presidentialitis and cannot find a cure. Every time I attend one of the clinics to which I have been referred by other advisers, there are so many ahead of me I cannot wait. Please advise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Doctor's Dilemma | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

Acting Department: David Daniel Driscoll '26, of New York City; Donald Wait Keyes '25, of Rush, New York; Bernard Barton '24, of Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB ELECTS 15 MEN | 5/13/1924 | See Source »

...manage the President's election campaign as he has managed the primary campaign. This is a post which for many years has been filled according to the choice of the nominee. It is yet six weeks before Coolidge can be the nominee. But what need was there to wait for the whistle to blow when the score stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pre-Convention | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

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