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However, I believe there exists a greater menace to our democratic government by rule of constitutional law and majority decision when a wealthy and educated class begin to think that our democracy and our capitalism are so sage and secure from attack that they afford them the privilege of exemption from plain provisions of the law and the constitution. The test of democracy is not obedience to a law we all favor, it is our attitude to a law we may not like. Even if we don't like the 18th amendment, let's obey it. We asked the railroad...
Thereupon Senator Ralston, Demo-cratic sage, proposed that there should be a new deal. Let the Government, said he, devise a Muscle Shoals pol- icy. In conformity with that policy, let there be new bids. This was tantamount to postponing the whole question for at least a year...
...against the red brick of Massachusetts, besides recalling memories of rugged Continentals, also brings to mind a picture of General Burgoyne, pacing his narrow quarters in Apthorpe House after the battle of Saratoga. And a certain individuality in the execution of Emerson is unavoidably reminiscent of the old Concord sage, a quotation from whose works, according to a sight-seeing tour conductor, appears over the door...
...prepared a collection of 400 fine color prints of the best pictures in famous galleries, and will exhibit them throughout the country for the benefit of those who cannot travel to see the originals. Reproductions are also available for purchase. The collection is now on display at the Russell Sage Foundation, Manhattan...
...late Colonel Higginson, should prove a sufficient guarantee of interest to those who know him; and a charming introduction for those who do not. While the article which opens the volume, an entirely human consideration of Erasmus' "Praise of Folly", is so admirable a proof that the Renaissance sage is by no means dead and gone, and so skillful an application of his wisdom to modern American colleges, that criticism balks at it. It is, as has been said of many another masterpiece, a setting forth of thoughts that everyone has felt but no one has expressed. And if anyone...