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...ablest exponents of the existing order will cry out at this arbitrary treatment of Mr. Strachey, for they maintain that when they know the critic's reasoning they are better able to refute the accusations. As Villard, a prominent liberal and recent lecturer at Harvard, said "repression was never yet a remedy for anything." Martyrdom and emotionalism, it has been historically proved time and time again, always will be the subvertor's most effective weapons...
...come-uppance smart Mr. Prentice ever had. He was born 71 years ago, scion of an old Albany family in which pedigreed cattle had long been a hobby. He sped through Amherst and Harvard Law School, went to Chicago, got a reputation as one of the city's ablest and coldest young men, made friends with Cyrus McCormick, became general counsel for Illinois Steel. At the turn of the Century, he moved to Manhattan and married Alta Rockefeller whose fortune was estimated at $50,000,000. Active law practice held him not many years after that...
Mesta's head is Lorenz Iversen, one of the ablest steel machinery engineers in the U. S. A Danish farm boy turned machinist, he went to sea for two years before migrating to the U. S. After working in a New Jersey shop, he went to Germany for further technical training, returning to a job in Mesta's drafting room...
...Someone was needed who could plan and plead reorganization in the slipshod War Department, set up administrations for the colonies newly-won from Spain. Appointed, Lawyer Root did both jobs brilliantly. He stayed on with Theodore Roosevelt and, when John Hay died, he became one of the ablest Secretaries of State in U. S. history...
...wonder, when his regular interviews are as useless as this, that the student does not think of going to his dean for advice which he is, of all others, ablest to give. All this is a result of treating intelligent men like cogs in a communist bureaucracy...