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 Vol. 016 Issue 006 (June 1 1952)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 EDITORIALS
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Creative Alternative IN "False Alarm!," on Page 13 of this issue of The Progressive, Stuart Chase has summed up, with extraordinary clarity, the great danger that threatens our democracy as...
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LAST OF THE OLD BREED
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Shannon, William V.
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Robert Alphonso Taft: Last of the Old Breed By William V. Shannon IT is widely recognized that Sen. Robert A. Taft is the foremost spokesman of the business community in American politics today....
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BEVAN: THE POLITICIAN
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Williams, David C.
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Britain's Bevan Lights a Fire THE POLITICIAN By David C. Williams London IN THE British House of Commons, Aneurin Bevan sits in the third row of benches, just below the gangway. Since his...
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BEVAN: THE POLICY
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Smith, Howard K.
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Britain's Bevan Lights a Fire THE POLICY By Howard K. Smith London IN SPEECHES which attract overflow audiences to large halls, and in his newly published book, In Place of Fear, Aneurin Bevan...
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FALSE ALARM!
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Chase, Stuart
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False Alarm! By Stuart Chose EDITOR'S NOTE: These nineteen propositions by Stuart Chase first appeared in The Saturday Review. We obtained permission to reprint them in The Progressive because we...
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THE CRISIS IN FREEDOM
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Meiklejohn, Alexander
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The Crisis in Freedom By Alexander Meiklejohn IF MY theme seems both abstract and difficult, I ask readers to look for a moment at a concrete Crisis in Freedom which arose at the very beginning of...
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YOUR MONEY'S WORTH
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Sheridan, Mary
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Your Money's Worth By MARY SHERIDAN IT LOOKS as if a lot of prices were coming down for the first time in two years; it looks as if there weren't going to be an inflationary spiral in 1952 after...
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EXPLOSION IN BOLIVIA
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BEALS, CARLETON
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The story behind the Explosion in Bolivia By Carfefon Beals WHEN Stuart Symington, Administrator of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, embargoed Bolivian tin until that country would sell it...
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THE MOOD OF AMERICA
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Awner, Albert N. Votaw, Tom Brooks, and Max
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THE MOOD OF AMERICA Notes on Political Hoodlums, Non-Profit Glasses, and a Healthy Revoff Guns and Ghosts in The Convention City By Albert N. Votaw Chicago COMPANY is coming, and Chicago is...
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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM Sign of the Times Dear Sirs: Please do not send me The Progressive any more, for I just do not have the time to read it. With TV every evening, radio and all, it's just too...
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STATE OF THE CINEMA
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Dworkin, Martin S.
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State of the Cinema A Film on Horseback By Martin S. Dworkin THERE was an Emiliano Zapata, who flourished as a bandit-revolutionary in Southern Mexico from 1910 to 1915. This is a matter of...
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Our Tragic Error
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Douglas, Justice William O.
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BOOKS Our Tragic Error THE COUNTERFEIT REVOLUTION, by Sidney Lens. The Beacon Press. 272 pp. $3.50. Reviewed by Justice William O. Douglas AS I read this book, a conversation I had last year...
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Rural Revolution
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Lewis, Robert G.
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Rural Revolution THE FARMER TAKES A HAND, by Marquis Childs. Double-day. 256 pp. $3.50. Reviewed by Robert G. Lewis THE Electric Power Revolution in Rural America" is Marquis Childs' sub-title...
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Footnote to Biography
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Eisendrath, Blanche Goodman
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Footnote to Biography By Blanche Goodman Eisendrath IN THE early 1920's, while reading a copy of The Nation, I came upon a short story by Sinclair Lewis, entitled The Hack Driver. It was utterly...
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No Fatal Trap
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Kennedy, Kenneth R.
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No Fatal Trap THE GEOGRAPHY OF HUNGER, by Josue de Castro. Little, Brown. 337 pp. $4.50. -LAND FOR TOMORROW, by L. Dudley Stamp. Indiana University Press. 230 pp. $4. LET THERE BE BREAD, by...
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The New Art
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Pitzele, Merlyn S.
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The New Art ABSTRACT PAINTING, by Thomas B. Hess. Viking. 164 pp. and color plates. $7.50. Reviewed by Merlyn S. Pitzele WITHIN the comparatively small scale of devoted interest it attracts,...
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Philbrick's Lives
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Wright, Charles Alan
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Philbrick's Lives / LED 3 LIVES, by Herbert A. Philbrick. McGraw-Hill. 323 pp. $3.50. Reviewed by Charles Alan Wright THE circumstances which led to the writing of this book are well known. The...
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Straining a Parallel
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Alexander, Robert J.
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Straining a Parallel BLOODY PRECEDENT, by Fleur Cowles. Random House. 270 pp. $3. Reviewed by Robert J. Alexander THIS book draws a parallel between the Juan and Evita Peron team of the...
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Rational Man
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Thomas, Norman
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Rational Man AFTER ALL by Sir Norman Angell. Farrar, Straus & Young. 370 pp. $4.50. Reviewed by Norman Thomas IFOUND somewhat unexpected pleasure and profit in Sir Norman Angell's...
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Senator's Conversion
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Current, Richard N.
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Senator's Conversion THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF SENATOR VANDENBERG, edited by Arthur H. Vandenberg, Jr., with the collaboration of Joe Alex Morris. Houghton Mifflin. 599 pp. $5. Reviewed by Richard N....
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A City's Grip
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MacKendrick, Paul
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A City's Grip ROME AND A VILLA, by Eleanor Clark. Doubleday. 315 pp. $4. Reviewed by Paul MacKendrick ROME has become in our time what Munich was in the very early thirties, and what Paris was...
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BOOKS BRIEFLY
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BOOKS BRIEFLY Non-Fiction The California Progressives, by George E. Mowry (University of California Press. 349 pp. $6). Mowry justifies this addition to the extensive literature on the Progressive...
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