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...with small men who seemed intent on proving that great men were obsolete. They had fiddled and fussed, explained and complained. Now Winston Churchill returned to power-a man who bore the consciousness of his own stature proudly, who shouldered responsibility with sober relish-a man who was a mover rather than a victim...
Last week, in a letter to McCarran, Corliss Lamont, now a lecturer in philosophy at Columbia University, made some sharp points. Lamont protested that the subcommittee "has tried to give the totally false impression that I am a Far Eastern expert and have been a prime mover in the affairs of the Institute . . . But in fact I have never been particularly interested in the Far East and have for only a few years been a member of the Institute, and a very inactive one at that...
First Move. The prime mover in the Eisenhower forces, hearty Harry Darby, wealthy onetime (1950) U.S. Senator and Republican national committeeman since 1940 from Ike's home state of Kansas, made his first move almost three months ago. Then top Republican politicians-governors, state chairmen, national committeemen-met in Tulsa to select a convention time & place. With Pennsylvania Congressman Hugh Scott Jr., who was Dewey's national chairman in 1948, Darby picked about 80 key Republicans and set to work on them, sounding them out on a stop-Taft movement and incidentally talking up Ike. In their conversations...
Though foreigners would gasp to hear it, the American thinks of himself as a stable, passive element in a disturbed world. The foreigner knows better: he knows that America is a prime mover in the world's convulsions. When the American takes a step in international economic affairs, the non-American, who does not understand the peculiar U.S. economic background, suspects him of hypocritically looking for profit or trying to impose the American way of life. Similarly, the U.S. from time to time gets into these unreal "Great Debates" over "internationalism" v. "isolationism," because the American is caught between...
...fine shuffle of the New Deal, Writer Malcolm Ross was one of the bright young Ivy Leaguers who went to Washington to take a hand. Yaleman Ross sat to the left of the dealer and played his cards ably. Soon he was publicity chief of the NLRB and a mover & shaker in U.S. labor policy. After a rough ride as chairman of the controversial FEPC, "Mike" Ross quit government in 1946, moved to Florida and went back to writing books...