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Foremost campaigner for the President was short, ruddy, big-nosed Ogden Livingston Mills. As Secretary of the Treasury he had lived, slept and slaved with the Hoover reconstruction program since its inception last year. Its details he knew by rote. On the stump he became its greatest expounder and expositor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Stumpsters | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

...entry into the White House. A hush-hush reporter with the manner of always having a big story up his sleeve, Newsman West has worked so long in the shadow of the G. O. P. that he will have little or nothing to learn as the new expositor of its political creed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A. P. To G. O. P. | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

...more humbly, he might have been content to watch, listen, report. Reportorial newspaper labels: Observer, Recorder, Review, Eye, Optic, Chronicle, Argus, Register, Messenger, Gazette, Herald, Telegram, Journal, Expositor, Reporter, Truth, Echo, Outlook, Spectator, Ledger, Bulletin, Mirror, News, Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bee-News | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

...introduction, M. Lichtenberger absolves Nietzsche from all responsibility for the World War. Here as elsewhere, it seems that the author has failed to reconcile the contradictions in the philosopher's doctrines, so eager is he to have us admire his Dionysian god. Briefly, the expositor shows Nietzsche as an excellent example of his own theory that a philosophy is primary an expression of the philosopher's personality. At first a pessimist because he was sick in body and mind, Nietzsche conquered the fear of pain by sheer willpower, and became thereby the greatest of optimists, which means, according...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOSPEL OF THE SUPERHUMAN | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

...Thinker. Fertile, vigorous, imaginative of mind, he disciplined himself to follow only inductive logic-from observation and experiment to hypothesis. He could not rest until he had tried experiments which seemed absurd even to himself. Slow in argument, a poor expositor, he was a great night-thinker, losing much sleep longing to correct possible false impressions. Huxley described "a marvelous dumb sagacity about him ... he gets to truth by ways as dark as those of the Heathen Chinee." Eternally openminded, he was frank before criticism, glad to acknowledge error, seldom condemned another's views by any word stronger than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Saint Darwin | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

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