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...Order, which is indispensable to all collective organization, has been spoken of. Democracy is precisely the regime that permits societies to progress in order, since it makes progress depend on the general will and on a more and more enlightened will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Democratic Peace | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...between Argentina and the U. S. It was between Argentina and Greentree, winner of the U. S. Open Championship, in which the best poloists in the U. S. were distributed among half a dozen teams. Main chance to restore U. S. faith in its poloists seemed last week to depend on whether substitutions-specifically, Winston Guest for John Hay Whitney at Back and Stewart Iglehart for Gerald Balding at No. 2- could be made before the next game in the two-out-of-three series. What Argentina's reaction to such a move would be was promptly indicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 21-to-9 | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...public opinion more and more. But unless the universities can keep clear of governmental interference and maintain the right to think and speak what they believe regardless of popular prejudice, training men to guide the people will become little more than a mockery. To preserve their vital liberties, universities depend on the support of the press. It is encouraging to find a leader of the newspaper industry awake to the need of guarding academic freedom and dedicating at least one section of the press to the accurate recording, "without fear or favor" of "all the news that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE AND PRESS: FRIENDS OR ENEMIES? | 9/17/1936 | See Source »

...Miner Lewis, endorsing the principle of industrial unionism. At that point the delegates abruptly reefed their sails, declined to head into C. I. 0. Likeliest explanation was that A. F. of T., whose members pay a maximum 40? a month dues, cannot afford lobbyists in every State capital, must depend on the A. F. of L.'s regular lobby for legislative representation, must stay in the A. F. of L.'s good graces. Purred Secretary David Pierce: "By staying in the A. 'F. of L. we can make peace between the warring factions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A. F. of T.'s 2oth | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...Franklin Roosevelt from Hyde Park: "I am sincerely proud that you are gathering in support of my candidacy." Best measure of the League's loyalty to Nominee Roosevelt was its violent opposition to Nominee Landon. "God help the American people," roared John Lewis, "if all they have to depend on in the future is that degree of consideration which will come from this little man out in Topeka, Kans., who has no more conception nor idea of what ails America or what to do about it than a goat herder in the hills of Bulgaria." A significant prophecy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Partisan League | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

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