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Bill Martin became first paid president of the Stock Exchange after the Richard Whitney scandal, when Wall Street's Old Guard had given way to its Young Turks. New Dealish, optimistic, they rallied behind Newcomer Martin in a campaign to re-establish the Exchange's good name. Bachelor Martin was only 31, sobersided, athletic, a good-natured mathematics whiz who ate in the Automat, wore no hat, and dabbled at writing plays in which he admitted he could never make the heroines sound natural. Blessed by President Roosevelt and Bill Douglas, no-smoking, no-drinking Bill Martin took...
Increasingly popular in U. S. high schools in the last ten years have been social science texts which purport to give pupils a "realistic" view of the U. S. way of life. New Dealish in tone, they are critical of big business, cry out against unequal distribution of wealth and unequal opportunities in the U. S. Few years ago businessmen, alarmed at what sounded like undermining of the U. S. system of private enterprise, began to protest. They attacked particularly a series of 20 books written by mild-mannered, white-haired Professor Harold Ordway Rugg of Columbia University...
...many factions as pre-World War II France, most of its politicians belong to one of two main groups: the Radicals of President Ortiz of the Conservatives of Vice President Castillo, behind whom stands the powerful figure of onetime President Augustin P. Justo. The Radicals have a New Dealish tinge; the Conservatives believe in government by the privileged and are traditionally pro-British...
...most successful managers in the country." If Wendell Willkie, for the last seven years president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., is elected President of the U. S. in November, he will be the first American to step into the office direct from a business job. New Dealish Columnist Samuel Grafton of the New York Post thus summarized the convention: "Instead of using the Republican Party as a professional instrument for carrying out their will, they (anti-Roosevelt business interests) have expropriated the Party and decided to do the job themselves...
...Defense Advisory Commission have come two key ambassadors of the power industry: Charles Wetmore Kellogg, president of Edison Electric Institute, and Gano Dunn, president of construction-engineers J. G. White Engineering Corp. To work with them, the President assigned quiet, round-cheeked, scholarly Leland Olds, Chairman of the New Dealish Federal Power Commission, who has been running the National Power Policy Committee analysis of emergency power needs which Assistant Secretary of War Louis Arthur Johnson got started a year and a half ago (TIME...