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Moley, Rex Tugwell, Jim Farley, John Hanes, et al.) were some of greater stature than the departed Assistant Secretary of War. But among them was none more loyal at the start, more bitter at the finish...
...smile as the Kelly hoodlums crumpled his creases, his correct collar wilted and even askew. But the second demonstration was given over to the "muggs," with a sprinkling of such earnest souls as Maury Maverick, Claude Pepper, Movie-Actor Melvyn Douglas (who hopes soon to be Governor of California), et...
Sensational murders and scandalous divorce cases PM also avoids, but in spite of this fact, and of the group of intellectuals (Dashiell Hammett, Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman, et. al.) who assisted at its birth. PM is no high-brow sheet. Publisher Ingersoll declares frankly that it is aimed at the masses and the low-income groups (incomes of $750 to $4,500 a year). For them he provides two pages a day devoted to labor news, union activities and unemployment, also bargains in food and clothing, cartoons by some leftist artists, drawings and photographs of garment workers, Negro scrubwomen, shirt...
Last month Archibald MacLeish penitently claimed that he and other writers of his generation (Ernest Hemingway, et al.) by their debunking of old slogans had "disarmed" the U. S., rendered it cynical and "defenseless before an aggressor" (TIME, June 3). Last week a famed educator got up and beat a rival breast. Before 1,000 visiting teachers at the summer session of Columbia University's Teachers College, Professor Jesse Homer Newlon made an extraordinary confession...
During the next eight years this world-traveling don busied himself mainly with a movement regarded by its enthusiasts as one of the hopes of world order: the propagation of the international language called Basic English (TIME, March 12, 1934, et seq.). A simplified English devised by C. K. Ogden, containing only 850 words but capable of expressing practically any idea, "Basic" made great headway in the middle '30s. Not only did students in many countries find it easy to learn and use, but English and U. S. writers discovered that translating their thoughts into Basic never failed...