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...slipped James Aloysius Farley, chief shepherd of all Franklin Roosevelt's political herds. No believer in griping party purges, Jim Farley's mission was to soothe feelings already hurt in primary fights, encourage sheep and goats to stampede all together in November. His first stop was at Fond du Lac, Wis., his second at Sheboygan, Wis., his third at Clinton, Iowa. Altogether, Shepherd James Farley planned to stop, look & listen in more than 100 towns and cities, mostly in the Midwest and Northwest. His farthest stop: Seward, Alaska. One of his most important stops: this week...
...fortune which her rugged grandfather had amassed from his 5-&-10? stores. Barbara's pile grew under her broker father's careful management. At the age of 21 she could write her check for $45,000,000. In 1930, in the teeth of Depression I, her fond father arranged a coming out party costing $60,000. Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton hotel was decorated with birch trees cut down and then covered with branches of fresh green leaves shipped to New York from California. When the debris was cleared away, every news editor in the country knew that...
...eighth grade. Prime aim of the Ford educational plan is to produce a nation of handy men, rather than poets or philosophers. His curriculum excludes all but "useful" subjects. Thus, his schools teach no foreign language, no art but the utilitarian, no literature for its own sake. Fond of moral precepts such as abound in the McGuffey Readers, Henry Ford values as literature Longfellow's The Village Blacksmith, because of its message. He likes to read to children these McGuffey verses...
...Heisenberg, for example, laid down his celebrated Uncertainty Principle (relating to the position and velocity of electrons) when he was 26; Dirac mathematically deduced the existence of the positive electron when he was 28. Once a theorist has constructed a powerful new theory, he is likely to become fond of it and spend much energy polishing and protecting it. To more than one scientist who contemplated last week's apparently fruitless meeting in Warsaw, it seemed likely that when theory emerges from its present slough, young minds with fresh imaginations will show...
English 1--Will be under Jones, inspiring and amusing lecturer but addicted to formulas and fond of debunking. Not recommended to Freshmen who have had a prep school survey course...