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 Vol. 012 Issue 001 (January 1 1948)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 RESURRECTION
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RESURRECTION THE RESUMPTION of publication of The Progressive seems to us little short of a modern miracle. It was only three months ago—Oct. 6, 1947—that we published what we thought was our last...
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THE MEANING OF THE MONTH
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THE MEANING OF THE MONTH Editorial Comment on Significant Developments Here and Abroad A Time for Greatness AMERICA enters 1948 a frightened country. The richest and most powerful nation on earth...
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CONSCRIPTION: ACT OF WAR
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Hutchins, Robert M.
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CONSCRIPTION-AN ACT OF WAR Adding UNIT to Our Atomic Monopoly Is the Peak of Provocation By ROBERT M. HUTCHINS THERE is considerable evidence that the present Congress will be subjected to an...
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BIG BUSINESS FOOLS THE PUBLIC
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Robertson, Nathan
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How Big Business Kids the Public Deception and Double-Talk Invoked by the NAM To Conceal the Profits Picture from the People By NATHAN ROBERTSON BIG BUSINESS, as represented by General Electric...
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WHAT ABOUT THE COMMIES?
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Rodell, Fred
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WHAT SHOULD WE DO ABOUT THE COMMIES? By FRED RODELL SO YOU don't quite like the smell of the witch-hunt down in Washington but you get from it a guilty little glint of satisfaction—'cause those...
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THE PEOPLE VS. WALL ST
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EATON, CYRUS
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THE PEOPLE VS. WALL STREET The Story Behind the Government's Drive to Crack a Conspiracy And Establish Freedom in American Finance By CYRUS EATON THE RECENT Justice Department crackdown on the...
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WE CAN'T LOSE
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Chase, Stuart
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WE CAN'T LOSE Here's an Exhilarating Ride up Americas Economic Curve— IF We Can Stay Out of War and Whip the Me Firsters By STUART CHASE WITH the world going plumb to hell on the front page every...
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THE FACT OF LIFE
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Mayer, Milton
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THE FACT OF LIFE By MILTON MAYER YET ANOTHER year, perhaps the last, you never know at my age; yet another year begins, and, instead of the high resolution to do better than I did last year, my...
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1948: POLITICAL PREVIEW
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Wechsler, James A.
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POLITICAL PREVIEW* 1948 Here Are the Runners, Odds, and Handicaps For Americas Great Destiny Sweepstakes By JAMES A. WECHSLER Washington, D. C. IN THE AUTUMN of 1946 both Robert Alphonso Taft...
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YOU AND THE ATOM
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Lilienthal, David
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YOU AND THE ATOM The Development of Atomic Energy Can Wreck Our Democracy if the People Yield Control By DAVID E. LILIENTHAL THE RELEASE of the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima two and a half...
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EVEN THE AIR ISN'T FREE
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Reveil, Aldric
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EVEN THE AIR ISN'T FREE Confessions of a Commentator Who Got Bounced Off the Air in Three Weeks By ALDRIC REVELL THIS IS the story of how I became an ex-radio commentator in the fastest time on...
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THE MOOD OF AMERICA
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al., Hodding Carter et
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THE MOOD OF AMERICA A Round-Up of Regional Reports from Progressive Correspondents The South By Hodding Carter Greenville, Miss. SOUTHERNERS are troubled in their thinking these days, just as...
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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM Suggestions Dear Sirs: Since no news is good news, I was beginning to feel quite certain that your campaign was successful when along came your letter announcing the good...
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THE STATE OF THE UNION
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Rubin, Morris H.
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STATE OF THE UNION By MORRIS H. RUBIN THIS DEPARTMENT is an attempted reformation of the "Washington Calling" column of the old Progressive. Part of my job is to pore over more than a dozen of...
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Stassen Removes The Fig Leaves
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Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr.
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BOOKS Stassen Removes The Fig Leaves WHERE I STAND, by Harold Stassen. Doubleday. 205 pp. $2. Reviewed by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. HAROLD STASSEN'S invocation of Job 31:35 in his Preface suggests...
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A Baedeker of U. S. Progressivism'
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Neuberger, Richard L.
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'A Baedeker of U. S. Progressivism' THE LA FOLLETTES AND THE WISCONSIN IDEA, by Edward N. Doan. Rinehart. 311 pp. $4. Reviewed by Richard L. Neuberger AS A BOY I remember reading an article in...
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Mellow Milwaukee
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Derleth, August
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Mellow Milwaukee BUCKET BOY, by Ernest L. Meyer. Hastings House. 236 pp., $3. Reviewed by August Derleth **One's MEM0RY can be a con_ V-/ venient instrument," writes Ernest Meyer in his brief...
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Two Gems on Mexico
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Rodell, Katherine
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Two Gems on Mexico JUAREZ AND HIS MEXICO. Ralph Roeder. The Viking Press. 2 vols., 763 pages. $10. A TREASURY OF MEXICAN FOLKWAYS. Frances Toor. Crown Publishers. 560 pages. $5. Reviewed by...
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Debs, With License
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Coleman, Mcalister
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Debs, With License ADVERSARY IN THE HOUSE, by Irving Stone. Doubleday. $3. Reviewed by McAlister Coleman THIS widely circularized book, Mr. Stone's Actionized biography of Eugene Victor Debs,...
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Fischer's Choice
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Ellis, Stephen
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Fischer's Choice GANDHI AND STALIN: Two Signs at the World's Crossroads, by Louis Fischer. 183 pp. Harper. $2.50. Reviewed by Stephen Ellis IT IS unfortunate that Louis Fischer, a great...
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Raking the Press
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Doan, Edward N.
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Raking the Press THE WAYWARD PRESSMAN, by A. J. Liebling. Doubleday. $2.95. Reviewed by Edward N. Doan THIS BOOK is highly recommended as required reading for every American citizen who tries to...
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The Case for Co-ops
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McMillin, Miles
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The Case for Co-ops THE COOPERATIVE CHALLENGE, by Bertram B. Fowler. Little. Brown. 264 pp. $3. Reviewed by Miles McMillin ANYTIME is a good time for a book on cooperatives by Bertram Fowler,...
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Movies with Meaning
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Evans, Ernestine
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Movies with Meaning GRIERSON ON DOCUMENTARY, edited by Forsyth Hardy. Harcourt, Brace. 324 pages. $3.75. Reviewed by Ernestine Evans HERE IS an oddly brought together book about an extraordinary...
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THE REVIEWERS
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THE REVIEWERS ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, JR. teaches at Harvard and is a frequent contributor to leading magazines. He wrote The Age of Jackson. RICHARD L. NEUBERGER is the nationally known Pacific Coast...
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