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...punctilious Buckingham Palace nor in the spacious hotel suite of Henry Ford (TIME, April 16). Royalty & Fords met before the cozy country hearth of famed Viscountess Astor at Cliveden, 20 miles from London. She, vivacious, hospitable, bred in Virginia, but now a British peeress and M. P., seemed the ideal international hostess. Gossip told that the conversation of Her Majesty and Mrs. Ford was at all times stately, that the men eventually shared a chuckle...
...contemptous gaze of the present in a reckless fashion which often fails to make allowances for the greater qualities. The true history of the present day seeks for a mean which presents both sides of the picture, that difficult blend of light and dark which composes the ideal color...
...Ideal in Bakersfield...
...British company described its progress to him as "entirely satisfactory." Again probing deeper, Miss Thompson claims to have ascertained that very many small, private concessionaires "are making enormous profits, profits which they could not possibly expect to draw in any European country or America." She adds: "An ideal concession is that of a Danish button company which makes buttons from pressed blood obtained from Russian slaughter houses, and has acquired a fortune in a very short time...
...central fact militating against Candidate Hoover is that many people cannot understand what he stands for. He is no forthright protagonist of an ideal or program. He puts forth no clear-cut political or social theory except a quiet "individualism," which leaves most individuals groping. Material wellbeing, comfort, order, efficiency in government and economy-these he stands for, but they are conditions, not ends. A technologist, he does not discuss ultimate purposes. In a society of temperate, industrious, unspeculative beavers, such a beaver-man would make an ideal King-beaver. But humans are different. People want Herbert Hoover to tell...