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DEMOCRACY IN THE MAKING - Hugh Russell Fraser-Bobbs-Merrill ($3.50). Savory history of the Jackson-Tyler fight against the United States Bank...
Franklin Roosevelt last week conducted a school for ambassadors. Home for a seminar on U. S. foreign policy were Hugh Wilson (Berlin), William Phillips (Rome) and William Bullitt (Paris). On the way from London was Joe Kennedy (nominally on his way to Florida to spend Christmas with his son Jack), and called home from China was Nelson Johnson, who by traveling his fastest can reach Washington next month...
...Professor Rexford Guy Tugwell of Columbia University, who in 1928 had tried to sell Al Smith a farm program which that salty sidewalk philosopher somehow couldn't swallow. Among them was red-faced, downright George Peek, who had grown interested in export subsidies while he and his partner Hugh Johnson were trying to sell Moline plows. One piece of advice that seemed to crop up wherever Mr. Roosevelt turned was that as Secretary of Agriculture he should get Henry Agard Wallace...
Musing on fighting words that could be and had been legally sent through the mails. General Hugh Samuel Johnson, himself no tyro at invective and abuse, suggested a few more: '"asymptote" ("a daisy of a word"), "parasang," "Cush-ping Dishpit." ("an evil sound and no meaning"), "yellow-bellied sap-sucker," "boat-bottomed grackel." "bottle-nosed puffin...
Democracy in the Making, by Hugh Russell Fraser (Bobbs-Merrill, $3.50), is history written with journalistic liveliness. It pictures in swift chapters the fight of Jackson and Tyler against the United States Bank. Packed with savory local color, Democracy in the Making makes the Jackson-Tyler era seem closer at hand than the Harding administration. Typical nugget of unfamiliar information: In 1837, during the Canadian rebellion. Englishmen seized the U. S.-owned Caroline on Lake Erie, killed the crew, sent the ship over Niagara Falls...