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...without causing a national uprising. Barring any new, sensational proof of Senator Bridges' charges, his record is remarkably clean for one who has been a political boss-local (The Bronx) and national-for 22 years. Ed Flynn's unswerving loyalty to Franklin Roosevelt might recommend him as a personal envoy. But of the talents necessary for a representative of the U.S. people, Frank Knox's Chicago Daily News said: "He is not a diplomat. He has had no foreign experience. He has had no military experience. He has no particular familiarity with Australia or with Pacific problems...
...stocky, rugged Justice Rutledge, 48, had more than geography to recommend him. Least known nationally of all Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court appointees, he is famed among legal scholars. He was a stern critic of the old Supreme Court for declaring child labor laws unconstitutional, is a stanch believer in liberal interpretation of the Constitution's "general welfare" clause. Yet his views are far from radical: his appointment was first suggested by Iowa's conservative Senator Guy M. Gillette...
...vulgarity. Too often, when he intends to insult the reader's stupidity, he insults his intelligence instead. But Author Wylie's book might be of far greater importance than its own intrinsic worth if readers in any appreciable numbers would act seriously on his old and central recommendation-"know thyself"-as well as on a thing he fails to recommend-the study of those quieter, subtler, maturer diagnosticians who are casing the same field...
Flynn has little to recommend him for his post. His personal success as a New York City political boss led him to the chairmanship of the Democratic Party but it didn't make him any part of an authority on Australia in particular or the Far East in general. Nor did it introduce him to the wiles and subtleties of international diplomacy. In fact, it hasn't been of sufficient substances to withstand the ill effects of the "Belgian Paving Block Scandal" in which it was charged, though never proved, that New York City workers had used paving blocks belonging...
...recommend the United States seaman who, in the recent battle in the Barents Sea between a Russia-bound convoy and the Germans, having been torpedoed, was riding astride a capsized lifeboat, waving his arms as the other ships in the convoy passed him, and shouting "Hi-Yo Silver...