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...antipathy for the New Deal, last month reported: "Uniformly there is the same story-he has pepped up the Republican organizations everywhere and done in a short time a job which could never have been done over the telephone, by mail or through lieutenants. . . . Mr. Hamilton has gotten a background on his present trip which will be invaluable to him when he gets back to headquarters...
...like volcanic eruptions or earthquakes. They don't get made. They make themselves. But there is something we can do and which we ought to do if we have any regard for the interests of those generations as yet unborn. We can and ought to provide the background against which these men of exceptional ability can develop their gifts to the utmost possibilities of their native talents, and without interference on the part of others...
Happily endowed with money, brains and background is Dr. Michael Hoke of Atlanta. His father. Robert Frederick Hoke. a Major General in the Confederate Army, prospered during Reconstruction by pushing what is now the Seaboard Airline Railroad through North Carolina to Atlanta. Dr. Hoke's mother was a New York Van Wyck. One of his uncles. Robert Van Wyck, was elected mayor of New York City in 1898. Same year, another uncle, Augustan Van Wyck, was defeated for Governor of New York by Roosevelt I. General Hoke wanted his son to become a civil engineer like himself. "Mike" obeyed...
...plugged and profited at mining and engineering, served two terms as Utah's Democratic Governor, was spotted by Franklin Roosevelt as a Cabinet possibility at a Governors' Conference six years ago (TIME, July 14, 1930). As the civilian head of the Army, he kept well in the background, left the service pretty much to its professionals...
...unobtrusively created a new type of critical literature that meets Thoreau's exacting standard of excellence. Thoreau said that at first reading a book should be impressive for its common sense; at the second, for its truth; at the third, for its beauty. Into a crowded and shifting background, made up of hundreds of minor, typical, New England figures, Mr. Brooks has woven the lives of his heroes, picturing them in the cities, the country, the seaport towns, studying the books they read, the letters they wrote, their changing opinions as they and the times changed. He has paraphrased...