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...Elliott, Mrs. Roosevelt and Louis McHenry Howe flew to Warm Springs. Gene Vidal spent three days there, informally expounding his views on aviation to the President-Elect. If Mr. Roosevelt was not impressed by his guest's business record, he could not help being impressed by his first-hand knowledge of the industry, his experience with airline extravagances and economies, his insurgent views on monopolies, his general enthusiasm...
...Author, says his introducer, "is that rare article, a newspaper executive who gets around a little and has first-hand knowledge of his town. He is a connoisseur of people, especially fantastic ones, and seeks them out as the late J. P. Morgan sought rare old snuff-boxes." He has journalistic premonitions which stand him in good stead. "He is practically a whippoorwill in his ability to forecast death, especially the death of an eminent citizen." Generally considered Manhattan's most colorful as well as ablest city editor. Stanley Walker fulfills the first requisite of a Manhattanite by having...
...department, he affirmed that the soldier is the last man to desire a war, since it is upon him that the work of conducting it rests. "Many are very anxious to acquaint the public with the horrors of war. The military man knows them all. He has had first-hand contact with them...
...been able, in the larger industries, to raise its individual weekly wages above the regular depression low, even slipping back in those brackets above the minimum wage, to surrender its supposedly guaranteed right to strike into the hands of a board whose impartiality is incomplete and whose first-hand knowledge of conditions is non-existent...
...Sciences, and Head of the Department of Relations at the University of Denver, Colorado. He has made many trips abroad since the War, and in the spring of 1932 attended the Disarmament Conference at Geneva. He spent several weeks research beforehand in the chief capital cities of Europe getting first-hand information regarding the various national attitudes on disarmament. Professor Cherrington has lectured at John Hopkins University, Brookings Institution, the University of Chicago, and at various League of Nations Association functions. In December 1932, he was the chairman of the Round Table Conference on Disarmament at the Riverside Institute...