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...follows in the official footsteps of other aloof, juridical Secretaries: John Hay, Elihu Root, Charles Evans Hughes, and like them has had extensive experience and a firm grasp...
...course to the State Department has followed a different route from that of Hay, Root, or Hughes, who had a firm belief in a set of established philosophical values. Acheson belongs to a more experimental school. Like his friends, Justices Brandeis and Frankfurter, and their own precursor, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, he is more apt to believe that ethical and legal principles can not be so rigidly fixed; their touchstone is whether an action appears to be good in the light of the needs of the day. It was and is a philosophy generally regarded as "civilized," and Dean Acheson...
...last week an old friend dropped into the office of handsome, courtly Samuel Hay Kauffmann to congratulate him. At 50, Kauffmann had been elected president of the Washington Evening Star-the capital's oldest, richest and most conservative newspaper. Said the friend: "I remember the first time I saw you. You were sitting on the tailgate of a Star truck." Sam Kauffmann, grandson and namesake of the Star's first president, had started at the bottom 28 years ago to learn the business side of the business...
...less than two months apart, marked the end of the old regime on the Star. Last week Kauffmann, four other new officers and two new directors* ushered in the new regime. Six of the seven were named Kauffmann or Noyes; all were descendants of the first Samuel Hay Kauffmann or the first Crosby Stuart Noyes, who took over the Star...
...Bataan", "Air Force" and infinitum) gets captured, escapes, locates the evil Nazi (left over from "A Yank in the R.A.F." "Crash Dive", and "Action in the North Atlantic") and finally lands the dame. The whole affair rises to a glorious climax when Powell returns in triumph to his Nebraska hay farm...