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...hostess of Fontainebleau decided she needed some big-league help. A constant reader of the New York Herald Tribune's conservative Columnist Mark Sullivan, she wrote to him, emitting an Ericksenian cry of distress. When Mrs. Roosevelt arrived at Fontainebleau, wearing flame-colored chiffon, a necklace of sharks' teeth, great was her surprise to encounter Mr. Sullivan, in white tie & tails...
...Columnist Williams continued to demand an independent air force and above all a unified Defense plan for all services, meantime asked by what right the Navy Department (which includes the Marine Corps) undertook to censor his civilian writings. For answer he got a weaseling memo, finding in one paragraph that as an inactive reservist he was not subject to control, in the next that by "custom and usage" he was under the Navy thumb. Replied Al Williams: "I tender my resignation quietly and without publication. . . . My services will always be at the command of the U. S. Marine Corps...
Pointing out that the emergency was a matter of days, not of years, Columnist Raymond Clapper last week demanded amendment of the law, cried: "What are we waiting for?" The State Department moved fast to cut red tape, decreed that necessary affidavits could be cabled to England. Promptly Western Union arranged for affidavits to be sent from any Western Union office. The American Association of University Women arranged to find homes for 3,000,6,000 children of British university graduates; the Committee for the Care of European Children prepared to aid families that wanted them but could not afford...
Best guess was that of New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock, who pointed out that Wendell Willkie, champion of business, had been nominated by the Republicans few days before. Columnist Krock repeated a cloakroom story: When a Congressman asked Secretary Morgenthau whether politics were involved in the President's message, he smiled and said, "A little." A humanitarian ring in the 85 words confirmed this view: "We are engaged in a great national effort. ... It is our duty to see that the burden is equitably distributed according to ability to pay, so that a few do not gain from...
...most successful managers in the country." If Wendell Willkie, for the last seven years president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., is elected President of the U. S. in November, he will be the first American to step into the office direct from a business job. New Dealish Columnist Samuel Grafton of the New York Post thus summarized the convention: "Instead of using the Republican Party as a professional instrument for carrying out their will, they (anti-Roosevelt business interests) have expropriated the Party and decided to do the job themselves...