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...remarkably, and whether he liked it or not, Franklin Roosevelt had little to do with it. The resolvers were Indiana's dumpy little senior Senator, Frederick Van Nuys (rhymes with geese), and an alarmingly handsome gentleman on the other side of the Earth, Philippine High Commissioner Paul Vories McNutt...
After Senator Van Nuys opposed President Roosevelt's Supreme Court plan last year, he was singled out as Victim No. 1 for the great purge of the Democratic Party. Franklin Roosevelt said nothing publicly, but Mr. McNutt's obedient satellite, Governor Maurice Clifford Townsend of Indiana, announced it last July from the White House steps (TIME, July 26), repeated it last August at a powwow of Democratic editors in Indianapolis: "The people of our State will not tolerate . . . any one in public office who will not put his shoulder to the wheel and give his earnest support...
Senator Van Nuys also knew the rank & file of the McNutt-Townsend machine, knew how its appointees contribute 2% of their State salaries to the machine's treasury, how scandalous certain of its dealings -in liquor licenses, for example-could be made to look. Republicans began to say nice things about him: as an "independent" he would certainly split the Democratic vote, help a Republican...
...doings in China have given Filipinos a new reason to wonder what may become of them without U. S. protection. Last January Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposed a plan whereby Philippine trade preferences would be reduced more gradually, ending in 1960 instead of 1946. Last month High Commissioner Paul Vories McNutt broadcast his view that Philippine independence be postponed indefinitely. Since independence has been Philippine President Manuel Luis Quezon's battle cry all his life, he obviously could not applaud this proposal. He went as far as he could by indicating sympathetic indecision...
...conception of Greek, Latin, and Mathematics as the essentials of knowledge is almost completely contrary to the new, he said. The club also heard a letter from one of its alumni Paul Vories McNutt, Governor of the Philippines...