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Some of the speakers present at the conference of 240 students were journalists Felix Greene and Frederick Nossal, both recently returned from the Chinese mainland, T. Kenneth Young Jr. former U.S. ambassador to Thailand, Professor John K. Fairbank, director of the East Asia Research Center at Harvard, Hans J. Morgenthau, professor of political science and modern history at the Univ, of Chicago, and N.Y. Times Vietnam correspondent Peter Grose...
...confused liberal, and this film served to solidify my confusion. Before entering the theatre, I had already pardoned the producer and photographer, Felix Greene, for a film which I knew would be rife with propaganda. I was not surprised when the China he showed me was as strikingly rugged as southern Utah and as green as Norway's eastern coast. As I expected, the peasant glee club sang a few rounds of "Socialism Is Good," and I nodded indulgently when the narrator noted that "no one starved, but rations were tight...
...already on the law school faculty, he was spending most of his time as assistant to the Secretaries of War and Labor-to say nothing of his service as chairman of the War Labor Policies Board. "Mr. Wilson has charge of foreign policy," Harold Laski wrote to Justice Holmes. "Felix seems to sponsor the rest of the Government...
...Rasputin of this administration." As F.D.R.'s top talent scout, Frankfurter manned the New Deal ramparts with such protégés as Dean Acheson, Jerome Frank, David Lilienthal, Thomas Corcoran and the ill-fated Alger Hiss. Predictably, they were called "Happy Hot Dogs," from the Latin felix for happy. Then came "the 1939 death of Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, who had officiated at Frankfurter's marriage to Marion A. Denman, the daughter of a Congregational minister. F.D.R. phoned Cambridge, where he caught his friend dressing for dinner. Standing in his underwear, Frankfurter heard the "warmth-enveloping...
...Died. Felix Frankfurter, 82, pillar of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1939 to 1962; of a heart attack; in Washington...