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...board room one day last week and sat down in four of the seven chairs around the directors' table. Secretary Woodin, ex-officio a board member, had hurried over from the Treasury to make up a quorum with Texas' Jesse Holman Jones, Arkansas' Harvey Crowley Couch, Utah's Wilson McCarthy...
Against the curving white wall of President Roosevelt's study on the second floor of the White House stands a big black leather couch. It is comfortably low and squashy, holds four grown men. Many long sittings have worn off most of its shine. Before it on the floor lies a tiger- skin rug and within easy reach is a pedestal ashtray. The couch's deep easy pitch not only relaxes the body but loosens the tongue to friendly informal talk. If the World Economic Conference, opening in London June 12, proves a success, it will...
...actually on the couch during the White House talks, but sitting close by in the oval study was generally to be found last week a stocky, square-shouldered man of 46. Grey streaks his thin dark hair above a domed forehead. His nose is long and straight between round, ruddy cheeks, over a full-sized chin and small mouth. Mostly he listened but when he did speak between puffs of a cigaret, his voice was pleasantly rich and low. almost a diffident drawl. He was Raymond Moley. Officially he was there as an Assistant Secretary of State. Personally...
...French on tariffs, then into a third room to settle wheat matters with the Canadians, finally back to the first room to take up currency with the British. These rounds were not flashy enterprises to make newspaper headlines; they were a diplomatic necessity on which the White House couch talks were based. Let the President hesitate on a detail of India's silver holdings or France's light artillery or Canada's tariff administration-and Expert Moley was close at his side to supply the exact information. Once or twice a day during the week President Roosevelt...
...enough, the legislative committee will find Brown staid as usual, will discover the Herald innocuous and its stand carefully circumscribed. But the whole affair is a singularly unfortunate commentary on the status of American undergraduate opinion in the councils of the mature judgment. It is eminently bad taste to couch a private albeit a worthy sentiment in the form of a public petition. It is deplorable that the American undergraduate press, as the sole method of expressing undergraduate opinion to the public, should have so abused its position that intelligent citizens justly regard its forays into fields beyond its usual...