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 Vol. 014 Issue 023 (October 7 1931)
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 The Central Problem
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THE COMMONWEAL A Weekly Review of Literature, The Arts and Public Affairs THE CENTRAL PROBLEM Volume XIV New York, Wednesday, October 7, 1931 Number 23 EDITORIAL BOARD MICHAEL WILLIAMS,...
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536 THE COMMONWEAL October 7, 1931 observe how constantly we find that all our political questions involve theological ones." As Cortes re-marked, "There is nothing in this to cause remark except...
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Idea of a University
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October 7, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 539 surely there is not one who, as he prays for her soul, will not be tempted to pray to her for his own. A HINT of homespun in the midst of grandeur is given by...
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Plainchant and Beethoven
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Ryan, Kenneth
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October 7, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 541 PLAINCHANT AND BEETHOVEN By KENNETH RYAN AMONG the best-known anecdotes about Ludwig van Beethoven is one which tells how people wept when he played. As a...
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The Time (verse)
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Morton, David
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542 THE COMMONWEAL October 7, 1931 felt a sense of loss, his music told them of a happiness which they did not possess but for which they longed to the point of tears. We may explain the stifling...
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Summer Musings on Democracy
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Murphy, William C. Jr.
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October 7, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 543 SUMMER MUSINGS ON DEMOCRACY By WILLIAM C. MURPHY, JR. I T DISTURBS school-book conceptions to be in-formed that the Honorable Joseph R. Grundy, erstwhile tariff...
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The Conqueror (verse)
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Roethke, Theodore
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544 THE COMMONWEAL October 7, 1931 former revolutionary officers. A bill to authorize the appointment of some Indian superintendents in the old Northwest Territory, drew from Maclay the acid...
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Toward Pan-Europe?
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Hirschfeld, Gerhard
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October 7, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 545 THE PAN-EUROPEAN MOVEMENT By GERHARD HIRSCHFELD point, the French attitude and the Anglo-American out-look. While only the first two are directly interested and...
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My Apologies to Saint John
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Homan, Helen Walker
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October 7, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 547 influence of MacDonald in bringing about German-French harmony regarding the "freezing" of short-term credits. By the same token, such British-American weight of...
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"No Man Hath Seen God" (verse)
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Clarke, George Herbert
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October 7, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 549 Apostles, for even you admit that you were "known to the high priest"; and it is presumed that you were able to gain admission into his palace during the trial...
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The Spanish Cortes
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Holden, Alice M.
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550 THE COMMONWEAL October 7, 1931 THE SPANISH CORTES By ALICE M. HOLDEN I NASMUCH as the principal business of a legislative assembly has remained essentially the same from mediaeval to modern...
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Yorktown Has Guests
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Kite, Elizabeth S.
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552 THE COMMONWEAL October 7, 1931 nor is there a moral. I shall not emphasize either the influence of the Church on the theory of representation in general nor the considerable part regularly...
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Communications
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October 7, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 553 COMMUNICATIONS AN INDICTMENT New York, N. Y. T O the Editor: The Reverend John McCarthy, pastor of the Methodist Church in Bridgeton, in his letter to THE...
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The Play and Screen
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Skinner, Richard Dana
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October 7, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 555 THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER He T HIS seems to be a season in which the giants are wearing clay shoes. Arthur Hopkins has just folded up his...
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Books
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Hennrich, Kilian J.; Shuster, George N.; Boyd-Carpenter; Thompson, Frederic; Kilmer, Kenton
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556 THE COMMONWEAL October 7, 1931 the rest, the play has three or four well-constructed scenes and moments when theatrical illusion is well maintained, due to the admirable enthusiasm of many of...
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Vol. 014 Issue 024 (October 14 1931)
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Vol. 014 Issue 025 (October 21 1931)
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Vol. 014 Issue 026 (October 28 1931)
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