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...
...Baker is known as the "biggest man in Wall Street next to J. Pier-pont Morgan...
...Sidney Lens, March 1965 Little incentive for auto safety Under present conditions there is little economic incentive for the auto maker to concern himself seriously with automobile casualties and collisions — for the costs and penalties that are not upon him...
...Carla Lazzareschi, January 1976 Opening to China Our only recourse now is to discard the illusions about China that have been born of our emotions, to learn more and more about China, its national motivations and aspirations, and to evolve a new China policy...
...O. Edmund Clubb, November 1964...
...Ralph Nader, May 1966 Means and ends Conservatives plainly seek Big Government on their own initiative to satisfy their own ends...
...In fact, he views ideology as an unnecessary encumbrance...
...David Freeman, April 1973 Big money George F. Baker reluctantly admits that the existing concentration of wealth may be dangerous to the country...
...January 1913 Ideological void What makes Jerry Brown appealing to people of widespread ideologies is simply that he has no ideology of his own...
...The law of the land Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi, as did Trujillo, runs a tight police state, with a 12,000-man American-trained secret police, the Savak, which is the real law of the land...
...Iran's parliament has been reduced to impotence...
...Unless an author's name is appended, the material was editorial comment...
...Louis Fischer, March 1973 Energy smoke screen The energy crisis could serve well as a smoke screen for a massive exercise in picking the pockets of the American consumer to the tune of billions of dollars a year...
Vol. 43 • August 1979 • No. 8
