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...align agricultural policy with the defense program: Chester Davis, 52, grey, astute member of the Federal Reserve Board. To direct price stabilization in raw materials: terrible-tempered, fat, prophetic Leon Henderson, 45, member of the Securities and Exchange Commission. To advise on consumer protection: short, dynamic Harriet Elliott, 56, dean of women, University of North Carolina's Woman's College...
...best hotels, apartments and office buildings, including Cathay Mansions where the National City Bank has just taken new space. But above all Sir Victor is a banker himself. His E. D. Sassoon Banking Co., Ltd., buys and sells currencies on the old Rothschild basis of advance information, refuses to align itself with British, Chinese or American banks in support of the Chinese dollar, takes an impartial trading profit on either side. Money-wise Sir Victor spends about six months a year in Shanghai, three in India (horses, cotton mills), three in Europe and the rest of the world...
...already increased the danger of involvement and has threatened to eclipse the fundamental civil liberties of the American people. In refusing us our right to hear a speaker of our choice, the Administration can only contribute to this undemocratic hysteria. In taking such a step the Administration can only align itself with those who, according to a recent Crimson editorial, "are trying to build for the United States a super-highway straight to Armageddon...
...necessary party. Quick-eyed, anxious to seem hearty and flexible, eager to dispel the aura of his title by democratic .manners, expected to travel and speak more than Sir Ronald did, his assignment (in cold fact) is to follow up on the visit of King George & Queen Mary, align the U. S. as close as may be behind an Empire whose back is close to the wall. His hope: "To do half as well as Joe Kennedy...
Salvemini went on to state that England and France are not real democracies, but, since they constitute the least threat to our national security, we must align ourselves with them for protection against the dictatorships...