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...loudest and brashest performances of his whole career John L. Lewis this week defied the President of the U.S. All his long, pent-up hatred of Franklin Roosevelt boiling over, John Lewis, like an angry, ranting, old-style tragedian, flatly rejected requests made in the name of his country...
Edgar Zodiag Friedenberg, 17, is the youngest person ever to appear on a convention program of the American Chemical Society. He is also the brashest. A precocious, articulate young man with an active mind and critical spirit, son of a retired Louisiana merchant, Edgar will graduate this June, loaded with honors, from Centenary College (Shreveport, La.), expects to start graduate study next fall at Stanford. In his 17 years Edgar Friedenberg has been much annoyed by scientific jargon. Last week he addressed the conference on chemical education during the society's spring meeting at Dallas. Far from displaying stage...
...after a tonsillectomy in 1918, Banker Butler, whom few dare call "Bill" to his face, has been gradually loosening the strings on his money bags. With three others, he built a fine new hospital for Everett. Then pale-haired, ponderous William Butler at 67 committed, for him, the brashest of acts. He gave the Seattle Children's Orthopedic Hospital $1,000 in his own name...
...President Lyman P. Hammond of the Electric Bond & Share Co. (part of the so-called U. S. "Power Trust"). The Stimson-Hammond point: Let the Filipinos revise their land and corporation laws so as to permit the introduction of U. S. capital and management. Contrary to custom, even the brashest U. S. liberals were slow to cry "Wall Street" on this occasion. Reason: Statesman Stimson adroitly emphasized the truism that political independence which Filipinos so crave is nowadays synonymous with economic independence...