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...Cord . . . and his associated interests now have effective control. . . . Under these circumstances Messrs. La Motte T. Cohû, George R. Hann, W. A. Harriman, Charles L. Lawrance, Robert Lehman, Lindley C. Morton and Matthew S. Sloan and myself believe it would serve no useful purpose for us to continue as directors of the corporation, and I am accordingly resigning as president...
...went down the list of White House correspondents, many of whom were long known to the President. Ernest Lindley of the New York Herald Tribune had covered Mr. Roosevelt since he began his first gubernatorial term at Albany. U. P.'s Storm had been with him since the winter of 1929. Universal's Edward L. Roddan, International's George Durno, A. P.'s Francis Stephenson, Chicago Tribune's John Boettiger had been on the job since the Presidential campaign...
...younger generation, and Mr. Lindley apparently identifies it with what is represented faithfully by a few serious-minded Yale seniors, is "going into politics fifty thousand strong." What is it going to do there? Mr. Lindley sees no need for reorganization, for any basic changes in the social structure. The fifty thousand are going to be "Honest...
...Lindley's belief that the younger generation has rejected post-war cynicism and found a new faith which will carry it to great heights is as lacking in penetration as are his opinions on economics. What the new faith is it would be hard to say. The younger generation is not turning again to religion, Mr. Lindley thinks. It has not even accepted the stop-gap of humanism. For the young man of today is "amoral." Mr. Lindley speaks hopefully of this amorality with a fine disregard for the fact that the term "amoral" can have no meaning...
...welter of confused thought in Mr. Lindley's article there can be detected a halting recognition that possibly the old principles of the competitive society to which he shouts his allegiance are not perfect. In his references to the "error in direction" in human endeavor and the admission that there is "something rotten in the system,"--in spite of his final conclusion that "there is nothing intrinsically wrong with our system"--Mr. Lindley shows that he is not 100 per cent sold on President Hoover's individualist philosophy of government. He gives no evidence, however, that he realizes the fundamental...