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With his fellow members of the building committee, Industrialist Irwin made no hasty move towards modernism. Fundamentalist in thinking as well as in faith, they first set down their desires in a joint credo of architectural aims and religious belief...
...Association's proposal that its members convey their opinion of individual texts to their local school boards has the most dangerous possibilities. A book might be banned simply because a moss-backed industrialist long out of school chanced to disagree with the author. In the current controversy, trusting the National Association of Manufacturers to maintain an unbiased point of view would be like trusting a rabbit in a cabbage patch.--Yale News...
Democrats feared a sit-down strike by political-minded industrialists; Republicans feared edicts from a political-minded President. Upshot of concern over the spread and depth of these fears was a public meeting at New York's Carnegie Hall, staged by the non-partisan Council for Democracy. In stage-Lincoln voice, Actor Raymond Massey read a unity plea by Poet Stephen Vincent Benet. Unity speeches were made by Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, Selective Service Director Clarence A. Dykstra, Columnist Dorothy Thompson, Labor Leader George M. Harrison, Industrialist Howard Coonley, Newscaster Raymond Gram Swing, Citizen Alfred Mossman Landon...
...businessman's budget was a bust; he attempted to repeal the oleomargarine tax in a State whose car license plates slogan "America's Dairyland." Nevertheless, Wisconsiners tramped through snow and rain to give Republican Julius ("The Just") Heil, 62-year-old millionaire industrialist, another try at the Governorship...
Already a graduate of Yale and Cambridge universities, Paul Mellon, 33-year-old son of the late Andrew Mellon, multi-millionaire banker-industrialist, says he will enter St. John's College at Annapolis, Md., to "make up to some extent important gaps" in his education. --from...