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July3I, x929 THE COMMONWEAL 333 A BRIEF FOR ANDREW JOHNSON By GEORGE FORT MILTON T IS with some trepidation that I essay the task of reviewing Mr. Lloyd Paul Stryker's Andrew...
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BOOKS The Two-Ring Circus The Democratic Party, by Frank R. Kent. $5.00; The Republican Party, by William S. Myers. $5.00. New York: The Century Company. MR. KENT is a political writer for...
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PLEBEIAN AND PATRIOT By GEORGE FORT MILTON THERE is a shabby newness to many of the rehabilitations of character (both up and down) which constitute the chief effect of too much of modern...
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