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André Maurois, like a week-end guest who hopes to be asked again, is unfailingly gracious about England and the English. This half-loaf appreciation of Dickens is sliced thin, á L'Anglais, buttered on the right side. But U. S. readers who like whole-wheat will raise an eyebrow at the very first slice: "In every English-speaking country Dickens is still the great popular writer." André ' whole case for Dickens is an argumentum ad hominem. Perhaps Dickens had a streak of Pecksniff in his character but, asks Maurois, "Who hasn...
...Frank's. Economically he stood somewhat closer to Jerome Frank, but he was a middle-of-the-roader in economics and in disposition. In AAA's legal department Frank and his satellites, including Francis Shea, Lee Pressman, Victor Rotnem, flashed their rapiers, determined to slice the profits off processors and middlemen and present them to the farmers. In AAA's Information Division, Consumers' Counsel Frederick C. Howe and Gardner Jackson slashed about them in the name of the consumer. Slow and steady Mr. Davis was not at home among such assistants, was not prepared...
...Manning, chargé d'affaires of Cord's motor, aviation and shipbuilding interests. Long ago Mr. Manning protested that it was just a happy coincidence when, the day after Mr. Cord announced acquisition of New York Shipbuilding Corp., that firm was awarded the biggest ($38,450,000) slice of the New Deal's naval contracts (TIME, Aug. 14, 1933). Last week the Senators got a fuller account from...
...called independents were still independent despite persistent rumors of corporate flirtations (TIME, Sept. 3). And they were still scrapping for a 10% slice of the market left them by the Big Three. Only Franklin had fallen by the wayside within the year...
...Floyd Bostwick Odium's Atlas Corp. Consolidated's corporate troubles had begun with a post-War expansion during which it acquired a string of lithograph companies and a $3,000,000 debt. Atlas Corp., through a subsidiary, acquired some five-year notes covering the fattest slice of this debt ($1,600,000), together with 40,000 shares of Consolidated stock. Into the maw of Atlas Corp. many companies go but few return. Consolidated was the exception. Smooth, hustling President Jacob A. Voice scraped together all the profits the company had, pledged his personal stock and life insurance policies...