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...Much has happened since he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy in World War I, when he first emerged as a farsighted, clearheaded, efficient public servant. Franklin Roosevelt laid up war materials for two years, preparing the Navy so thoroughly that less foresighted War Department chiefs had to beg Woodrow Wilson to give them vital materials out of Mr. Roosevelt's hoarded plenty. More than any man's, his was the vision that saw the need of mining the North Sea's northern entrance, the strength to override the two Admiralties that said "impossible," the ability...
Special Assistant to the Attorney General Hugh A. Fulton knows some tricks too. One reason Hopson (if he lives) may be convicted is that his stooges are indicted along with him. Great is the temptation to a stooge to try to beg off by helping the Government blame everything on the boss...
...Normally I should not, of course, regard a news story in the Crimson as a matter for any comment, regardless of its content. The exception to this rule, however, seems to me to be created by your article, which has attracted the interest of the outside press. I therefore beg to protest against what seems to be a totally irresponsible piece of journalism which violates not only the canons of good taste but the sound rule that unfounded rumors should not be used "to make news...
...could scarcely believe his one good ear when he heard the Son of Heaven command him, the new Premier of Japan, to form a Government. It was all he could do to bow low, mumble the prescribed formulas of acceptance ("I am filled with trepidation . . . I beg time . . .") and back away...
...lepers ever try to escape. But Dr.Hasseltine is often plagued by hysterical women who drive up to the white plantation house and beg for admission, insisting that they are lepers. Another strange fact: whenever Dr. Hasseltine has a vacancy in his army of 200 laundresses, bakers, cooks and carpenters, he is swamped with applications...