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...January 1939, with no apparent hell-raising intent, good Mr. Logan introduced an eighth version of his old bill to set up uniform standards of procedure for quasi-judicial Federal agencies. He had long felt that bureaucracy's big ears needed pinning back. Franklin Roosevelt, acting on similar motives, set up a committee in February 1939. under Law Expert Dean Acheson, to study the same problem. The Brookings Institution pondered; bar associations brooded...
...dodged back behind the wall-but not until he had snapped another picture of Ed McNew. One of the most remarkable newsphotos ever taken, staring straight into the muzzle of a gun, it was evidence enough, thought Howard Jones's editors, to convict Bondsman McNew of assault with intent to kill...
...convinced that Roosevelt holds no malice against his bitter foes, that his intent is finally a blueprinting of peace, and that his deeds are for the national welfare and not for politics, the country will be persuaded into unity under his leadership...
...near to an apotheosis as a man of Mr. Carpenter's discretion would ever go. The music becomes broad and majestic and affirmative, only to drop off at the end in a charmingly deprecatory manner." Said the Journal of Commerce's Claudia Cassidy: "Attractive with no apparent intent to be profound, call it a graceful compliment to the jubilee season...
With the Army and traveling salesmen arrived propagandists intent on stirring up native hatred of whites. Coming from China, where brutality was their code of conduct, Japanese soldiers assumed in Indo-China the role of liberators, fraternized with the natives and invited them to inspect and play with the guns of the hitherto forbidden French coast defense. Thousands of agents preached the New Order and distributed pamphlets explaining it. Lavishing tips on ricksha coolies and beggars, Japanese officers protested loudly their affection for the people...