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...suggestion to the Democrats for 1940-why not Hull for President and F. D. R. for Vice President? This would avoid (not evade) the third-term difficulty, yet give the ticket the Roosevelt magic. It would also be interesting to see Mr. Roosevelt presiding over Taft, Vandenberg, Glass, etc. This plan would also release abstaining Mr. Garner for some sort of Boys' Work...
...example: my good friend, the late Matti Helenius, who had published several books under the name Matti Helenius, was well known under that name all over Europe. He sought to avoid confusion by attaching his Finnish family name to his accepted name, Helenius, and thus became Matti Helenius-Seppala...
...which their people have gained through the years of struggle, the second is the problem of adjusting their economic life to the difficulties of the machine age. . . ." Although rival groups seek power and influence by exploiting economic distress, attempting to undermine democracy, main problem in combating them is to avoid taking action "which would undermine the fundamental structure of constitutional liberty itself...
...which their people have gained through the years of struggle, the second is the problem of adjusting their economic life to the difficulties of the machine age. . . ." Although rival groups seek power and influence by exploiting economic distress, attempting to undermine democracy, main problem in combating them is to avoid taking action "which would undermine the fundamental structure of constitutional liberty itself...
Stocky, broad-palmed, Russian-born Maurice Sterne, now 61, used to tend bar by night in order to study art by day. A traditionalist who yet manages to avoid the academic, Painter Sterne is best at variations on familiar themes, when his assured technique puts down in memorable line and color "a nude here, a head there, whatever catches...