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[538] Slums—Still the Cities' Shame By OLIVER McKEE, JR. SLUMS are a major liability to every American city. They are schools of bad citizenship and breeding places of disease, crime...

Roosevelt's Reverses (January 1938)

January 14, 1938 The Commonweal 313, ROOSEVELT'S REVERSES By OLIVER McKEE, JR. NO AMERICAN President began a second term under conditions more favorable than those which faced Franklin Delano...

The Far East (November 1937)

November 5, 1937 The Commonweal 37, THE FAR EAST By OLIVER McKEE, JR. BEARING a commission from the Continental Congress as consul in Canton, Major Samuel Shaw of Boston, supercargo on the...

Class Prejudice (September 1937)

September 17, 1937 The Commonweal 468 CLASS PREJUDICE By OLIVER McKEE, jr. THOUGH not unfamiliar to Americans, the phrase "class war" has an alien connotation. It suggests the...

Work Relief (June 1937)

June la, 193? The Commonweal WORK RELIEF By OLIVER McKEE, jr. FOR THE fiscal year beginning July 1, President Roosevelt has asked Congress to appropriate $1,500,000,000 for...

The Campus and the Capital (June 1936)

175 THE CAMPUS AND THE CAPITAL By OLIVER McKEE, jr. UNDER an invitation from the Institute of Public Affairs, about sixty undergraduates, picked from political science classes in a dozen...

Veterans and Politics (September 1935)

460 The Commonweal September 13, 1935 VETERANS AND POLITICS By OLIVER McKEE, jr. THOUGH the Senate sustained President Roosevelt's veto of the Patman bonus bill, prepayment in full of...

The Philippines Today (June 1935)

I78 The Commonweal June 14, 1935 THE PHILIPPINES TODAY By OLIVER McKEE, jr. WHEN President Roosevelt signed the Philippine Constitution on March 23, certifying that its provisions...

The Political Maze (April 1935)

April 26, 1935 The Commonweal 723 THE POLITICAL MAZE By OLIVER McKEE, jR. N " ATIONAL politics again comes into its own as the New Deal enters its third year. The party conventions are but...

The President and Congress (February 1935)

39 ~ T/ze Commonweal February 1, 1935 THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS ,By OLIVER McKEE, jR. A CONGRESS with Democratic majorities of approximately three to one in both its branches, heard President...

The Presidential Power (November 1934)

I I 2 The Commonwea! November 23, I934 seductive features can therefore not be accepted as a constructive contribution to the unemployment problem. The very progress of planning...

The World's Navies (November 1934)

November 9, I934 The Commonweal 5I THE WORLD'S NAVIES By OLIVER McKEE, JR. T O LAY the groundwork for a naval conference n e x t year, representatives of Great Britain, Japan and the...

Culture Comes to the Potomac (June 1932)

236 THE COMMONWEAL June 29, x93z CULTURE COMES TO THE POTOMAC By OLIVER McKEE, JR. V ISITORS to the youthful republic of America a century ago found the capital a straggling, overgrown...

As Congress Meets (December 1931)

AS CONGRESS MEETS By OLIVER McKee, jr. WITH the Democrats numerically strong enough in the Seventy-second Congress, in both House and Senate, to veto any administration bill presented as a...

Canada at Washington (July 1931)

296 THE COMMONWEAL July 22, 1931 CANADA AT WASHINGTON By OLIVER McKEE, JR. S ITS minister to Washington, the Bennett government in Canada has chosen Major William Duncan Herridge. Soldier and...

Ending Imperialism (June 1931)

182 THE COMMONWEAL June 17, 1931 deep chests. The women are home-lovers and are seldom to be seen except when one passes their adobe houses, and then they are usually busy about their household....

Finger-printing the Alien (April 1930)

FINGER-PRINTING THE ALIEN By OLIVER McKEE, jr. AFTER a decade of rather academic discussion by political leaders and others, the proposal for a registration of aliens has suddenly become a live...

Islam-Religion or Symbol? (September 1928)

ISLAM-RELIGION OR SYMBOL? By OLIVER McKEE, JR. AFTER a protracted trial, a Turkish court has found three American teachers in the American ¦" girls' school at Broussa, Anatolia, guilty of...

McKee, William

McKENNA, (REV.) EDWARD J.

McKenna, Daniel J.

McKenna, Edward J.

McKenna, James

McKenna, Norman

McKENNA, NORMAN C.

McKenzie, John L

McKenzie, John L.

McKeon, John

Mckeown, Tom

MCKONE, HARRY