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Often during the five years before Pearl Harbor, Dr. Stuart acted as a Sino-Japanese middleman. Betweentimes, he was kept busy bailing his Nationalist-minded students and faculty members out of Jap occupation headquarters and stalling Japs who wanted to hoist the puppet flag over Yenching. After the start of U.S.-Jap hostilities, when Stuart himself was interned in a house in Peiping, the Japs, who had hoped to exploit his close personal friendship with Chiang, refused to let him be repatriated to the U.S. He spent the war writing a commentary on the New Testament and playing anagrams with...
...government. As the nation's largest party, they proposed a coalition Cabinet under their burly Secretary General Maurice Thorez, who spent most of the war years comfortably in Moscow. A more likely candidate of the Left coalition was oracular Socialist Vincent Auriol, foreign-affairs expert and a middleman in his party's divided house...
...will all these price increases be absorbed by the middleman; some of them will be passed on to the consumer. Even if retail prices are increased, OPA argues, the consumers will still save money. They will be able to buy cheap articles now absent from the market...
...conscientious Ph.D. who for the past nine years has been associated with the Educational Records Bureau, academic efficiency experts who think every school should get itself a Guidance Officer. His book was brimful of Guidance. By internal evidence, the Guidance Officer seemed to be a half-robot, half-notetaking middleman on the faculty. His impressive task: to make "each individual understand his abilities and interests . . . relate them to life goals, and finally to reach a state of mature self-guidance." His tools include a panoply of complicated forms and tests...
...intent of Section 101 (12) was to help the farmer, forced to sell his products at wholesale prices, but to buy what he needs at higher retail prices. Congress hoped to give farmers a bigger profit by helping them to sell at retail prices, i.e., eliminate the middleman through coops. This the co-ops have done well...