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...Year, 1937, I nominate Congressman Hatton W. Sumners of Texas. Here is a statesman and a great patriot, a man with the courage of his convictions. His speech on the floor in Congress, in opposition to the Court packing plan, will go down in history as one of the most important factors in the defeat of that bill...
...essential. The best safeguard for national investments is a nation of investment-minded people. At present, the opportunities for thrift are restricted by the time factor." He was speaking to the Manhattan convention of the Thrift and Security Foundation. He is a descendant of a brother of Patriot Benjamin ("A penny saved . . ."). Franklin, an industrial engineer and business counselor, has a grandson to carry on the name...
Still fond of impudence, he also announced but not in the column of "Callisthenes": "I think Hitler is absolutely a great patriot. Mussolini also is a patriot, and a fine patriot, but sometimes he seems a little aggressive in his patriotism...
Died. Grenville Temple Emmet, 60, U. S. Minister to Austria; of double pneumonia after a two-day illness; in Vienna. Minister Emmet, a great-grand-nephew of famed Irish Patriot Robert Emmet, was a onetime law partner of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, onetime (1934-37) U. S. Minister to The Netherlands. He assumed the Austrian Ministry just ten days before his death...
...Commanders. To undertake this great campaign, the Japanese Government appointed General Iwane Matsui to supreme command of the combined army and navy forces. Matsui understands the Chinese almost as well as his own countrymen, once cooperated with that intense Chinese patriot Sun Yatsen, "Founder of the Chinese Republic," to promote "Pan-Asianism" in China. Though this credo was directed against China's National Government as well as against Russia, Matsui was shrewd enough to fool a good many naturally-cautious Chinese, was received with open arms wherever he went. Now his job is not to fool them...