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...speaks of him as a "Pescoqo de Sola" (Leatherneck)-a ranker. In the 1924 revolution, Dutra again fought the Government unsuccessfully. But he hit the jackpot in 1930 when he helped Vargas' "gauchos" ride into power. Since then he has been a staunch pillar of Brazil's neo-fascist "New State...
Even to most Timesmen, Strunsky is little known. He inhabits a paneled office on the Times building's hushed, neo-Gothic tenth floor, sacred to editorial writers and the library, and referred to by reporters in the bustling city room on the third floor as "Heaven." He summers in New Canaan, Conn., winters on Fifth Avenue, lives almost wholly for his work...
...writing in FORTUNE for August, Philosopher Dewey talks back. He calls the neo-scholastics of the Hutchins school "historical illiterates." In harking back to Greek and medieval ideals of education, says he, they forget that Greek liberal education was not only founded on first hand observation but was also reserved for the relatively small class of free men whose leisure was made possible by the vocational skills of their slaves...
...156th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (2,000,000 communicants) met in Chicago's neo-Gothic Fourth Presbyterian Church. To a jampacked audience assembled to elect his successor, lean, ascetic-looking, scholarly Henry Sloane Coffin finished his term as moderator with a slam-bang speech...
...What happens this year in respect to our foreign policy," he said, "will determine our post-war policy completely. The nation at the present time in divided into the bitter camps of neo-isolationism and interventionism. The latter group is now the most potent group, comprising 75 percent to 80 percent of the people is all sections of the country...