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...first issue included such famed economists as John Maynard Keynes ("A New Monetary Policy for England"), Sir Josiah Stamp ("Our Price Level Problem"), William Trufant Foster ("Is Fiat Money Any Worse than Fiat Poverty?"). Among a group who discussed Mr. Foster's article was gloomy Richard Waldo, president of McClure Newspaper Syndicate. Books reviewed included Wages and the Road Ahead by General Motors' James David Mooney, The Dow Theory by Robert Rhea, The Banks and Prosperity by Lionel D. Edie...
...mile "brush" (as Coach Bert Haines would call it) because you have time to settle down and row! . .A Californian, Ed Yeomans, keeps up the Californian rowing tradition at 2, a new comer to be sure in this veteran crew, but earning his salt. . .At bow we come to Waldo Holcombe who carries the family tradition from lecture platform to the boat house. . .Well intrenched in the cox's seat for three years, at the rope's end, presides Ham Bissell, the only man who can see where the crew is going, and guide it on its straight and narrow...
...April 27, 1882 the bell on the Unitarian Church in Concord tolled seventy-nine strokes, for Raiph Waldo Emerson had died. Well might Concord and all New England mourn, for that death marked the high tide of New England's leadership in the world of belles lettres. Hamlin Garland has told of the change. But Emerson was the flesh and blood of America's first native literature, and as such he has become a myth, godly, mysterious, and sacred. Moderns do not read Emerson much, perhaps because they fear the myth, perhaps because they cannot understand his strength...
Civilizer Emerson's life was not so rich in incident as it was in fellowship with Nature and acquaintances with men. His biographer is hard pressed to wring a story out of his life. "Born to be educated," as his family said, Ralph Waldo Emerson had his lessons well under way by the time he was 8 (1811) when his father William was called from his pastorate at the First Church of Boston into the grave, consoled on his death bed by Dr. Frothingham's assurance that "at least he had not outlived his teeth." Ralph and his four brothers...
...striking example of the way in which the country allows itself to be victimized by a confusion of ideas. In this case practically all the parties concerned in the affair have permitted the essential matter to be beclogged with irrelevancies. The original group, led by Theodore Dreiser and Waldo Frank, raised a cloud of publicity which centered almost exclusively on themselves, and which in the case of Dreiser was of an exceptionally shabby character. The air of ineffective dilettantism which surrounds their adventures has gone far to discredit in the public eye the cause of the miners. It is doubtful...