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...generally comprehended this side the Mason-Dixon line that state institutions in the South, however liberal, cannot, with the present temper of feeling against the negro, dare to open their gates to him. Regardless of what constitutes ideal justice, any attempt at mixing the races in so crucial a concern as education would be certain to arouse a resentment both bitter and dangerous. Even if the colored student were tolerated by the whites, his plight would be made unbearable by social barriers erected around him. His theoretical right to learn, like his theoretical right to vote, avail him nothing...
...Willys-Overland Co. took over Moline Plow Co., made George Peek president at $100,000 a year. President Peek made Hugh Johnson, whom he had met with Bernard Baruch on the War Industries Board, his chief counsel. When New York and Chicago bankers took over the liquidation of the concern, Mr. Peek was asked to resign. He did so but later sued for future salary under his contract and recovered several hundred thousand dollars. General Johnson stayed behind, while Peek, now independently wealthy, went into a cornstalk processing concern which left him more time for his life hobby, farm relief...
Back in his own office General Johnson announced at his Press conference: "Ford is not eligible for Government contracts. ... A billion-dollar concern cannot hide behind a $10,000 dealer...
...Candidate LaGuardia re ported to NRAdministrator Johnson that a member of the McKee slate was using the Blue Eagle insignia on his campaign literature. General Johnson promptly ordered the practice stopped. Inquisitor Samuel Seabury, stumping for LaGuardia, declared that McKee had drawn up cor poration papers for a realty concern, then voted as a city official to grade the street passing the company's premises...
...Secretary is thereby placed in a position doubly ignominious. But surely the reflection on Mr. Roosevelt is of a more weighty kind; if ever the spiritual head of a party should intervene in a local concern, the deposition of O'Brien should have challenged the President's responsibility. Here was the largest city in the republic, chained to a political machine hopelessly inefficient and corrupt. Gladstone was no Platonic guardian, but there were limits which his vassals could not pass. Instead, the President was silent, and allowed his lieutenant to engineer a very questionable candidacy which threatened the success...