THE WAY WE SAW IT
THE WAY WE SAW IT The following are excerpts from articles and editorials published by The Progressive since its founding on January 9, 1909. They have been edited only to achieve brevity. Unless...
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...Charles Darwin, January 1913 The power of business It is regrettable that the institutions of representative government are everywhere subject to the influences of corporate funds...
...Unless an author's name is appended, the material was editorial comment...
...Walter P. Reuther, March 1948 Brain drain If I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week...
...Vonder Haar, March 1975 Fruits of intervention Twenty-one years of tutelage under American marines did not leave Nicaragua quite the democratic heaven that official forecasts had led the world to expect...
...for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use...
...September 17, 1932 No exit We have either designed an absurd society in which life is unbearable, or we have become what Nicholas Johnson called a "junkie nation...
...Notes from a financial columnist Tips on stocks will give no nourishment to the hungry unemployed...
...June 11, 1932 America's blessings Free enterprise in America is neither free nor enterprising...
...Walter M. Price, November 1948 An economic disease This unjust, unfair, and inequitable distribution of wealth is the cankerous base of the disease that besets the present economic system...
...April 16, 1932...
Vol. 43 • April 1979 • No. 4
