Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guided by a versatile hand and although it has shown particular ability at thrilling narrative such as "Marie Antoinette" it is more than capable in recording scholarly research and thought. Zweig's biography of Erasmus is not a conventional biography; it is rather a perceptive study of the great thinker as a representative of sixteenth century Humanism, a cold unimpassioned word picture of a mind rather than a man. Erasmus was a thinker not a doer; it was he who laid the foundation upon which Luther based his violent departure from the past and the unity of Christendom...
...philosopher he exhibits a complete knowledge of the writings of the classical authors and then continues to set forth a clear, simple doctrine of his own; as a man he shows a completely human character that can only add to one's estimation of him as a leading thinker of our time...
Cordell Hull: "The ascetic type, suggesting a monk of the Middle Ages." Donald Richberg: "A deep thinker." Henry Wallace: "A man of the soil." Hugh Johnson: "The answer to my prayer...
...free speech and freedom of the press are conditions wherein every group can find expression. In other words, a free press is not free to close its columns to anything, even to denials of freedom. Chesterton never did anything better. One is reminded of his statement that a free-thinker is the most unfree thinker in the world, because he is not free to think seriously of the tiniest miracle...
...greatest NRA shakeup since last summer. Part of a logical transition from code-making to enforcement, it decentralized authority, delegated to an administrative staff many of the powers he formerly exercised. To head this staff he appointed Lieut.-Colonel G. A. Lynch, whom he described as "the most advanced thinker in the U. S. Army." Col. Lynch, a classmate of General Johnson at West Point, was detached from the infantry and assigned to the NRA two weeks...