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...radio stands a framed sentiment, "The Penalty of Leadership," which says: "In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. . . . When a man's work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious...
...through the Navy Yonai plodded, pushing himself ahead with alternate fits of rebellion and unctuousness, in alternate shifts of deck and desk duty. He lost the hearing of his left ear in target practice, and quickly learned the political uses of deafness. In time he became chief of the big naval bases at Sasebo and Yokosuka, then Commander in Chief of the Combined Fleets. He was Navy Minister when Japan went to war, when the Navy let itself be sucked into the battle of Shanghai, when the Panay was bombed. He is said to have torpedoed an open military alliance...
...stay in court for years, it will provide jobs for several trustees (not unusual price: $50,000 a year each), who will need corps of lawyers, accountants, statisticians, engineers, etc., to help them prepare a reorganization plan, administer the business, sue the former directors if necessary. A prime target of the Public Utilities Holding Company Act, its $1,000,000,000 of paper assets and 150 constituent operating companies can expect to be sharply scaled down, rearranged, recapitalized, thus bringing more security underwriting business to hungry Wall Street than it has seen from one source in many a year...
Yesterday there was thunder on the left. Instead of firing from the hip with its usual mimeographed salvo, the Harvard Young Communist League has this time taken careful aim at a weak point in the Rooseveltian armor and discharged a telling blast. The New Deal foreign policy is the target, and a tempting one it is, even though Mr. Glenn Frank, in his comprehensive anti-New Deal program of last week, passed it by, intentionally or otherwise. Thus beset on two flanks at once, the New Deal will find its leftist critics the hardest to answer. Mr. Roosevelt, when...
...Most unusual target of Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold's anti-trust prosecution...