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Democrat. Mr. Eastman always admitted that he had no political affiliation, and almost everybody else admitted that the I. C. C. would be a far less potent body without Mr. Eastman. A hard-working bachelor and a patient, keen-nosed bear for grubbing out facts, he has long been known as the I. C. C.'s most brilliant dissenter. Though he is a frank advocate of Government control of the carriers, all railroadmen have a vast respect for Mr. Eastman's knowledge of their business. When President Hoover had misgivings about his reappointment, it was the railroadmen...
With heavy hearts and dire foreboding the Administration looks ahead to the meeting of Congress next January, realizing that the opening of the grousing season cannot be long delayed. Already keen ears in Washington detect the cocking of shotguns all over the country, a sound unpleasing to the natives. Henry Ford has rallied about him a brave band of those who, for various reasons fear the implications of enforced codes. The farm bloc, temporarily placated by the burnt offering of a devaluated dollar, can be expected to provide a great deal of clamor and possibly some force if the latest...
...keen nose has Correspondent Barnes for the family that Dictator Stalin so scrupulously keeps out of sight. Two years ago, comparatively new to Moscow, he flushed Stalin's second wife, Vasya's mother, Nadya Alliluieva, young, shy and serious, in an industrial school studying to become manager of a synthetic silk factory. When she died last November of peritonitis, appendicitis or poison (she was supposed to have tasted everything prepared for her husband several hours before he ate it), she arose from public anonymity in a magnificent Moscow funeral. Last week Correspondent Barnes stood at the door...
TIME, the well known and brilliantly edited magazine, seems to us to violate its keen sense of fairness when mention is made of Duke University. In its issue of October 2 under the head of Education, it is unfair to Duke. These three statements are made in the article. "Eight-year-old Duke University near Durham, N. C., announced the beginning of its 98th year.". . . "Harvard University entered its 298th year." . . . "Princeton University opened its 187th year." The three universities all date back to their humble and modest beginnings. Duke began 98 years ago as York Academy, then Trinity College...
Tammany Hall is by no means the totally wicked organization which out-of-towners and professional New York reformers believe it to be. Even so keen a muckraker as Lincoln Steffens lends support to the theory that only through such widespread political societies as Tammany does the greatest advantage come to the greatest number of citizens from their government. Many a shrewd, honest and successful Manhattanite maintains close Tammany connections. Unanimously, this Tammany type deplores the bad management which has brought the 128-year-old Hall into the shadow of its fifth reformation. This sorry plight, they claim...