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...Republican National Committeeman Charles Dewey Hilles returned from the Middle West last week and announced that here and there but not everywhere the farmers resent the veto of the McNary-Haugen bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Apr. 4, 1927 | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...machines were only instruments, not manna or masters to these men. So he finds little health in the so-called Chicago realists of today. He sees their renowned leader, Theodore Dreiser, swallowing the drab scene "with a vast hippopotamus yawn"; engulfing, nothing more: no digestion or creation. Philosopher John Dewey he finds serviceable but juiceless, with a mode of expression "as depressing as a subway ride." William James at least had a style, the lack of which suggests an organic failing in his disciple. Philosopher Santayana preserves a sense of beauty, but is at once exotic and provincial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Kingdome, Power, Glory | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...STORY OF PHILOSOPHY-Will Durant-Simon & Schuster ($5). The sages humanized, from Plato to John Dewey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: THE CREAM | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...siren screeched in the U. S. Treasury Building in Washington. Timid clerks rushed into the corridors, craned quaking necks. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Dewey was irked. He had ordered all employes to remain in their offices when the burglar siren sounded, so that guns could sweep the corridors clear of thugs, bandits, etc. Last week's screech was only a test case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Miscellaneous Mentions: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...motion will be proposed by Barrett Williams '28 who will be followed by D.S. Gibbs '27. E.C. Dewey '26 will be the third speaker. After the prearranged discussion the question will be thrown open to the floor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STAGE CENSORSHIP IS DEBATE SUBJECT | 3/1/1927 | See Source »

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