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Their instructors were a group of intimates: twinkling Dr. William Allan Neilson, Smith's president-emeritus, as director, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, Librarian Archibald MacLeish and other White House favorites. Popular reading matter at the institute: Mein Kampf and Louis Fischer's Men and Politics. At Mrs. Roosevelt the students shot such questions as "Should we enter the war? . . . Are there appeasers in the State Department?" Mrs. Roosevelt answered off the record. They took turns presiding at meetings, organized groups of hecklers to get practice in handling them...
...disturbed by the activities of the American Youth Congress, by an increasing tendency of grownups to get fed up with Youth. Thereupon I. S. S.'s advisers-among them: Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. Dwight Morrow, Congressional Librarian Archibald MacLeish, Smith's President-emeritus William A. Neilson, Williams' Professor Max Lerner-decided that the organization should have as its main function teaching youth "to think historically and to act with restraint." Said they: "Organized 'action groups' . . . have been able to secure much greater influence than their relatively small numbers deserve...
Delegates proceeded to examine problems from the fifth column to foreign trade, heard themselves scolded for cynicism and "disgusted detachment" by Speakers Neilson, MacLeish, et al., skirmished with a few members of the American Student Union and American Youth Congress who had gone to bore from within. By week's end the delegates had succeeded in squelching these noisy spokesmen, went off to their colleges steamed up to start forums on world problems...
Edward B. Sheldon '08, honorary chairman, and Hendrik Willem Van Loon '06, chairman, will lead a discussion on "Arts and the Letters." Arthur A. Ballantine '06 is chairman of the group which will deal with "Bench, Bar, and Government," and William A. Neilson G '96, President-emeritus of Smith College, does similarly on "Education...
...which was brand-new when the case was filed, has aged with the processes of jurisprudence; Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and Poland have disappeared; World War II began; two of the Government attorneys took wives; another became a father; two of the original 63 Alcoa defendants died (Vice President Winthrop Neilson and Stockholder Andrew William Mellon...