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...privileged enterprise, not free enterprise. . . . "The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the Government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody's business. . . . "We seek not merely to make government a mechanical implement, but to give it the vibrant personal character that is the embodiment of human charity. We are poor indeed if this nation cannot afford to lift from every recess of American life the dread fear of the unemployed that they are not needed in the world. We cannot afford to accumulate a deficit in the books...
Last week Republican Senator Lester J. Dickinson of Iowa, who knows nothing good of the New Deal, lifted his vibrant voice in the Senate to excoriate Works Progress Administration. Scornfully he cried: "We are told over and over again by the President, Hopkins and Farley that there is no politics in relief. . . . No politics in relief! . . ." On firmer ground than when he read a canned speech about the poor having to eat canned dog-food (TIME, May 11), Senator Dickinson thereupon read into the Congressional Record, without giving any names, a letter written by "a gentleman who holds...
...hoot that day about Brown et al. v. State of Mississippi-three Negroes convicted of murder, whose statements, claimed to have been made when they were brutally whipped by deputy sheriffs, were admitted in evidence as confessions. The Chief Justice of the U. S. was not disinterested. With vibrant voice he called attention to the "due-process" clause of the Constitution, declared, "The rack and the torture chamber may not be substituted for the witness stand," set aside the sentences. Having contributed to the dramatic tension by putting human rights first, Chief Justice Hughes took up property rights next...
...those in the audience who remembered her sensational concert debut in 1923,when she appeared in Carnegie Hall as a plump, glossy-haired girl of 19, an unknown suddenly called upon to substitute for Soprano Anna Case. Subject for high praise then was the beauty of her voice, its vibrant warmth, its effortless production. Smooth singing was to be expected at her Metropolitan debut, and with the exception of a few strained top notes there was little fault to find. Surprise was to see her appear as a lithe, graceful woman 25 Ib. thinner than she used...
Last week Hofmann again proved his power with long-familiar music, made his piano seem not like a man-made instrument but like a vibrant human voice spontaneously singing, whispering, shouting to the skies. Every piano student knew the pieces by Gluck, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt. But fresh cause for wonder were Hofmann's dazzling arpeggios, the flying double octaves, the countless tonal colors. Said Critic Olin Downes in the New York Times next day: "It was playing of the grandest and most compelling sort...