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...disaster, made money for the Government by insisting, with a small-town banker's care, on rock-sound collateral before certifying a federal loan. Jones was dropped by Franklin D. Roosevelt as Commerce head in 1945 to make way for Henry Wallace. (He later called Wallace "an incompetent meddler with screwball ideas," denounced F.D.R. as a ruthless "total politician.") His lifelong passion was power ("I am a trustee for all of the people"), and in wielding it he made many enemies, who called him "Jesse James" and "Ten-Percent Jones." To his admirers he made democracy a safe risk...
...questions posed in 101 U.S. newspapers this week by a slick new comic strip, or "fiction panel," as the trade knows unfunny funnies. David Crane follows in the soapy footsteps of those other vocational do-gooders, Rex Morgan, M.D., Steve Roper, wholesome news photographer, and Mary Worth, motherly meddler...
Germany's fleet plowed past the cliffs of Dover (see p. 23), Benito Mussolini called Franklin Roosevelt a Messianic meddler and Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a convivial vociferator* (see p. 26), but still there was no actual fighting in Europe last week. Meanwhile the U. S. people continued the process of making up their collective mind about War (how to provide against its coming) and Peace (how to preserve it). The process consisted, as it must in a democracy, of sound-offs hither & yon, pro & con. Most notable...
...that event, public opinion in the U. S. would form in one of two ways: behind him more strongly than ever as a champion who, having done his best for peace, must now do his best for the Democracies; or against him more strongly than ever as an international meddler who having futilely exposed the dignity and good faith of the U. S., must now take a back seat, let the U. S. retire into its shell...
...considerations. From the various Deans he should receive records enabling him to judge schools by their past graduates. If it is decided that men not associated with the University can be of help, Phillips Brooks House should be educated in Harvard's needs and raised from the status of meddler to that of assistant...