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 Vol. 017 Issue 012 (December 1 1953)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 A Spy Thriller in Three Acts
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The Progressive Ye Shall Know the Truth and the Truth Shall Make You Free' Volume 17 December, 1953 Number 12 A Spy Thriller in Three Acts THE breathless saga of a Senator racing home from his...
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THE OLD DEAL
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Harris, Seymour E.
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The Old Deal By Seymour E. Harris IN THE 20 years between 1933 and 1953, the politicians, college professors, and lawyers, with little help from business, wrought a revolution in the economic...
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WHY I WON
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Johnson, Lester R.
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Why I Won ,By Lester R. Johnson Lester R. Johnson, a small-town district attorney in rural Wisconsin, vaulted into national and international prominence recently when he became the first...
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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MACARTHUR REVOLUTION?
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Lens, Sidney
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What Happened to the MacArthur Revolution? By Sidney Lens Tokyo AMAJOR in the old Japanese Army took us sightseeing one day. On the way he explained his conversion to another religion. It was...
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'THAT FARMER-LABOR TRAIN'
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EBY, KERMIT
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That Farmer-Labor Train' By Kermit Eby There's lumberjacks, and teamsters, and sailors from the sea. And there's [arming boys from Texas and the hills of Tennessee; There's miners from Kentucky,...
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THE MERRY CHRIST
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Mayer, Milton
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The Merry Christ °Y Milton Mayer "The Merry Christ" first appeared in the February, 1950 issue of The Progressive. It brought a greater demand for reprints than anything we have ever published....
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A SLUM EXPLODES
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Beats, Carleton
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Report on British Guiana A Slum Explodes By Carleton Beals BRITISH GUIANA, nearly twice as large as England, is the chief sugar factory of the empire, or, better, its chief sugar sweatshop. A...
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GONE GOOSE?
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Kasper, Sydney
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Gone Goose? By Sydney Kasper WHAT'S happened to the goose? Tradition ordains that the American dining table must be graced by a turkey on Thanksgiving, a ham on Easter, and a roast goose on...
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THE MOOD OF AMERICA
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McGrath, Leonard Boasberg and John
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The Mood of America Freedom Congress and The Third Camp Radical Reactionaries By Leonard Boasberg Omaha THE Freedom Congress, a euphemistically titled conclave of professional bigots, political...
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To THE NEAREST EXIT
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Dworkin, Martin S.
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State of the Cinema To The Nearest Exit By Martin S. Dworkin THE escape-artists who run the movie business have new horrors from which to rescue their customers. Once, the problems and anxieties...
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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM 'Nasty, Vicious . . .' Dear Sirs: It is common knowledge that persons featured in The Progressive like William O. Douglas, Walter Reuther, David Lilien-thal, Margaret Chase...
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Witness by Wechsler
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Wright, Charles Alan
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Witness by Wechsler The Age of Suspicion, by James A. Wechsler. Random House. 333 pp. $3.75. Reviewed by Charles Alan Wright IN THE FALL of 1931 a 15-year-old boy entered Columbia University....
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Fitz's Crusade
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Otto, Max C.
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Fitz's Crusade As I Saw It, by D. R. Fitzpatrick. Simon & Schuster. 258 pp. $5. Reviewed by Max C. Otto TO REVIEW a book is never an easy assignment. Sometimes it seems an impossible one. For...
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Soviet Ways
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Browder, Robert P.
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Soviet Ways How Russia is Ruled, by Merle Fainsod. Harvard University Press. 575 pp. $7.50. Russian Assignment, by Leslie C. Stevens. Atlantic-Little, Brown. 568 pp. $5.75. Reviewed by Robert...
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UN for Citizens
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Kenworthy, Leonard S.
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UN for Citizens UN: Today and Tomorrow, by Eleanor Roosevelt and William De-Witt. Harper. 236 pp. $3. Reviewed by Leonard S. Kenworthy WRITING about the United Nations and its specialized...
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The Hiss Case
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Countryman, Vern
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The Hiss Case The Strange Case of Alger Hiss, by The Earl Jowitt. Double-day. 371 pp. $3.95. Reviewed by Vern Countryman THIS is the fourth book on the celebrated Hiss case. Whit-taker...
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Men of Music
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Barnes, Courtlandr D. Jr.
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Men of Music The Story of the Metropolitan Opera, 1883-1950, by Irving Kolodin. Alfred A. Knopf. 607 pp. $7.50. Notes Without Music, by Darius Milhaud. Alfred A. Knopf. 355 pp. $5 Maurice Ravel,...
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Artists & Art
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Werner, Alfred
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Artists & Art David to Delacroix, by Walter Friedlaender. Harvard University Press. 136 pp. and 83 plates. $6. Goya's Caprichos: beauty, reason and caricature, by Jose Lopez-Rey....
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Four Novels
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Rodell, Katherine
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Four Novels Too Late the Phalarope, by Alan Paton. Scribner's. 276 pp. $3.50. The Story of Esther Costello, by Nicholas Monsarrat. Knopf. 270 pp. $3.50. The Third Angel, by Jerome Weidman....
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Saint and Seer
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Maurer, Herrymon
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Saint and Seer My Gandhi, by John Haynes Holmes. Harper. 186 pp. $2.75. Reviewed by Herrymon Maurer IF IT is important that the world be challenged by men of great inward force, it is...
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BOOKS BRIEFLY
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BOOKS BRIEFLY The Spirit of St. Louis, by Charles A. Lindbergh (Scribner's. 562 pp. $5). Twenty-six years later, who cares about the details of the first one-man flight across 3,600 miles of the...
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