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While the nation was dividing itself into clangorous groups of hard and soft money men last week, frantically trading theory for theory as prizefighters swap punches, a plainspoken, uncompromising young Arizonan who parts his hair in the middle and knows more about Government income & outgo than anyone else, arrived in Boston to speak a few hard facts. He was Director of the Budget Lewis Williams Douglas, addressing the annual conference of the New England Council (industrialists, businessmen). As a spokesman, he had come neither to praise the Administration's fiscal policies nor to bury any illusions about them...
...cause of wholesome, 100-percent edible eatables. The first head of the college, the wicked Mr. Eaton mentioned last time, fed his long-suffering students, according to contemporary accounts, "hasty pudding with goat's dung in it, and mackerel served with their guts in them." Before skipping this plainspoken, if indelicate piece of seventeenth-century realism the early prevalence of Hasty pudding in the diet should be noted. For more than 200 years the staple food here, this pudding is now remembered only in the name of the largest and second oldest club (1790). It probably needed no doctoring...
...March Scribner's contains three Pisces of interesting matter. First there is a plainspoken review of America's present foreign relations, with special reference to the war Debits and Japan. The doctrine that we should forget about out rights in the debit negotiations and think more about our interests is refreshing, and there are many arguments for abandoning the negative policy of isolation which has characterized the last three administrations. This article, "Is There a Crisis in our Foreign Policy?" by A. D. Howden Smith should be appointed to be read in churches, movies, and senate Houses...
...place, part-time and ad interim, was coming a figure as interesting in the traditional academic scene as is onetime Morgan Partner Thomas Sovereign Gates who took charge of Pennsylvania's big, down-at-heel University two years ago. From its board of trustees Princeton had drafted the lumbering, plainspoken, understanding head of the country's second biggest life insurance company?Prudential Life's Edward Dickinson Duffield of the Class of 1892, descendant of Princeton's first president, Jonathan Dickinson, son of Rev. Thomas Duffield who taught in Princeton for 56 years, brother of Princeton's longtime (1901-30) Treasurer...
...suddenly become filled with clouds of incense and Anglo-American goodwill. Prime Minister MacDonald was planning to go and talk with President Hoover about naval disarmament. Astute Mr. Dawes made it clear that he would try to keep beatific sentiment from cloying by playing his role of hustling, plainspoken, rough-diamond American...