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...Manhattan, James Aloysius Farley, a political realist and a shrewd observer of trends, said: "I have an uneasy feeling that the belief is spreading that people are not capable of governing themselves; that the problems today are so complex that the citizens at large must of necessity be detached from their own difficulties. The concept of the political elite is growing...
...Hire expert staff assistants to research complex legislative proposals and free Congressmen from routine office tasks...
...advantages which the Communists would derive from the proposed Constitution were: 1) an all-powerful unicameral legislature, even more unhampered by checks and balances than the old French Assembly; 2) a new electoral law (not incorporated in the Constitution but closely tied to it) which would set up a complex form of proportional representation which seemed likely to favor the Communists; the electoral setup would emphasize parties rather than candidates-another help to the Communists, the best disciplined party. (Commenting on the voting system, famed French mathematician and Rightist Assemblyman Jacques Bardoux said: "I read these texts once without understanding...
Places, Not Faces. Such hog-on-ice independence is half the explanation of Fitz's success. The other half is his knack of dramatizing a complex issue by reducing it to a one-sided dimension in a few bold and simple strokes. He cannot draw likenesses well, so he almost never caricatures specific politicoes. (Though Fitz is in the forefront of U.S. political cartoonists, he is leagues behind the London Evening Standard's pixyish little New Zealander, David Low.) Fitz poured out his feelings about Prohibition (he likes liquor as much as he likes crap games) with...
Created by Howard Colwell Hopson, at one time a key man in New York state public utility regulation, Associated Gas was one of the most complex promotional extravaganzas of all time. Now, its capital structure deflated, its subsidiaries reduced by sales, mergers and liquidations from 179 to 46, it was thriving as a normal, healthy holding company. But neither normal nor healthy was Promoter Hopson; jailed for mail fraud and income-tax evasion, he went insane, is now in a New York sanatorium...