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Senator in Action. As a Senator, Arthur Vandenberg has been a Republican independent. One of his heroes in the upper house was the late, great maverick, Bill Borah; when Borah died, Vandenberg moved into his office. He strung along with the New Deal on Social Security, SEC and price control; opposed it on TVA, the Supreme Court packing bill, and consumer subsidies. Some newsmen in the capital began to call him the "Yes and No Man." He is proud of a letter from Democrat Leo Crowley, head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., acknowledging Vandenberg as the father of that...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Burris Atkins Jenkins, 75, liberal theological maverick who ran a nondenominational Kansas City (Mo.) Community Church; onetime editor and publisher of the Kansas City Post; after long illness; in El Centre, Calif. He once advised Boy Scouts to play pool (good recreation), dance (eliminates dangerous sex manifestations), sock the other fellow (boxing is a manly art), stop expecting Dad to be a pal (he is too old to be more than a friend...
...Maury Maverick, head of WPB's Smaller War Plants Corp., returned from a tour of the Western Front with a string of adjectives for National Association of Manufacturers' Board Chairman Frederick C. Crawford's rosy picture of conditions in France (TIME, Jan. 15): "Infamous, superficial, cruel, obnoxious...
...last week laid down the rules under which the soldiers can borrow for new enterprises under the G.I. bill of rights. The Federal Government will guarantee a soldier's loan, made by a private bank, loan company, or friend, up to $2,000, providing the RFC or Maury Maverick's Smaller War plants Corp. approves. One requirement: the project must have a reasonable chance of success. If they wish, soldiers can pool their loans, that is, 100 soldiers can get $200,000 to go into business together...
...author of this prediction in the current Atlantic Monthly is a brilliant maverick Episcopal priest, Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell. Four out of five servicemen, says he, are "valiant young pagans" who "know little and care less about Christianity. . . . They will come back sure that the churches have small influence on American life . . . ready to do little more than to give those churches a chance to prove that they have life, vigor, sincerity, pertinency...