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Defeated then by 4,050 votes, he was chosen to serve out the unexpired term of Florida's late Senator Duncan U. Fletcher in 1936. In Washington, Claude Pepper distinguished himself by a strict adherence to all policies and projects suggested by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. A stocky, black-haired young man, whose earnest, grey-eyed face is disfigured by pockmarks, he speaks with more sincerity than eloquence, convinces his listeners of his utter honesty when he says: "It is time someone in authority got in to do some fighting for the poor white man in the South. I have...
Laurence Housman's latest memoir of his late brother contains a brief (104-page), eminently unsatisfactory biographical note, whose tantalizing omissions are half discretion, half plain lack of knowledge; a few unpublished letters; 31 poems, their general level far inferior to Housman's sensibly strict standard; and the best Housman parody (by Hugh Kingsmill) extant...
...wants no more. When he first joined the Institute, its officials asked him to name the salary he expected. His figure was so low that the officials had to raise it to preserve Institute standards. But if he is indifferent about his own money, Albert Einstein has a strict moral sense about other people's. His associates were amused last week because he had put his foot down against too many free copies of The Evolution of Physics being scattered around Princeton. It did not seem fair to the publishers...
...Board of Trade's member firms, Cargill is the only one to advocate such CEA limitation of speculation. With the strict Scotch Presbyterianism of its bosses, Cargill claims to regard a future contract as a contract to be fulfilled to the letter-which means actual delivery of grain. Most brokers regard a future merely as a hedging or speculative mechanism. Nor is this the only seed of contention between Cargill and the Board of Trade. Though Cargill has been in business since 1865 and has branches from Seattle to Albany, not until...
Because Painter Blanche has covered whole epochs in his previous writing, and does not want to go over the same ground in this, he does not follow a strict chronological narrative in Portraits of a Lifetime, but skips through time & space as his memory prompts him. The result is a little disconcerting to readers who do not know his previous volumes. At one moment the artist may be telling some antique anecdote about Renoir which drifts imperceptibly into comment about the political situation in present-day France, of which he strongly disapproves...