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...Perino's, the Association of Motion Picture Producers sent in the first team-M.G.M.'s Louis B. Mayer, Goldwyn's Sam Goldwyn, Paramount's Henry Ginsberg, RKO's Charles Koerner, Universal's Nate Blumberg, Columbia's Irving Briskin, Fox's Lew Schrieber and Joe Schenck, everybody's Will Hays. Rank talked easily, but not about his plans. He liked the fried chicken...
...sold more than 8,000,000 copies. Close behind, in this order, are Scrapbookster Elbert Hubbard's Message to Garcia (4,000,000), Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind (3,625,000), Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends and Influence People (2,751,000), Lew Wallace's Ben Hur (2,500,000), and Marion Hargrove's See Here, Private Hargrove (2,500,000). Farther down the list are Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Bob Hope's / Never Left Home, with around a million and a half sales each. Anthony Adverse...
...hardly a care on his mind, Harry Truman had left his spacious, picture-lined office in the Senate Office Building, walked over to visit Speaker Sam Rayburn in the Capitol. Others had already gathered in the Speaker's office: White House Assistant James M. Barnes and House Parliamentarian Lew Deschler. It was the kind of company Harry Truman liked. None of them was a policymaker from the high levels of the Roosevelt Administration. In his two and a half months as Vice President, Harry Truman had not been invited to sit in with the policymakers; he had continued...
Inevitably, the first bloom wore off. Many a disciple, alarmed by the New Deal's hunger for power, and by the growing debt, broke with Roosevelt: men like Raymond Moley, the Blue Eagle's swash buckling Hugh Johnson, Lew Douglas. Republicans spoke words like "regimentation," "bureaucracy"; many a thoughtful man repeated them...
...remaining 10,000,000 tons (to be used chiefly in coastwise trade) would be a sufficient backlog. And on the tonnage sold or leased, the U.S. should tie enough strings to make it available if needed for another war. But it will never be needed, Lew Douglas argued, if his program is carried...