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Died. George Creel, 76, America's World War I propaganda chief and jack-of-all-public-affairs; of cancer; in San Francisco. As head of World War I's Committee on Public Information, Wilsonian Democrat Creel set out to arouse the home front ("Give me two weeks . . . and I'll change the so-called mind of the American public on any given subject"). After the Armistice, Author Creel freelanced in California, ran unsuccessfully against Fellow Muckraker Upton Sinclair in 1934 gubernatorial primary, later broke with the New Deal-Fair Deal, last fall headed northern California...
Whether or not Adlai Stevenson gets into the White House, he seems sure of a place in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Though his voice has been to Princeton, and his words occasionally sound Wilsonian, at other times they have the dry crack of a Will Rogers aphorism. Some samples from his speeches last week...
...calendar ran m reverse, he joined the pickets in the bloody Homestead steel strike of 1892, and actually went so far as to jostle a Pinkerton. After that, Mark devoted the rest of his life to visiting Walt Whitman, dressing French wounds in the Franco-Prussian War and preaching Wilsonian democracy on park benches to young men who weren't even ready for Grover Cleveland...
...extraordinary material and scientific progress, of a remarkable lengthening of the human life span, of a widening of access to the world's cultural heritage from the very few to many more. It has been a half century of the emancipation of women, of the growth of democracy, of Wilsonian idealism and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights...
...tenure appointments, are just worried. Certain faculties, notably those of the law and medical schools, are not even worried. But the younger faculty members and the graduate students, especially in the physics department are scared stiff. "We're afraid to open our mouths on any idea left of Wilsonian liberalism," one physics instructor says. Other young instructors have admitted that this attitude is wide-spread in the science departments. (Little information is available in other fields in the university; it is well known, however, that although many instructors have Progressive Party sympathies, very few men did any active work...