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Wendell Willkie. Thoroughly Presidential is Utilitycoon Willkie, the home spun Indianian who makes sense on any subject (New Dealers would except TVA). Mr. Willkie, 48, no Tory, is brilliant, countrified, adept in controversy and, to many minds, the best domestic brain on politico-economics. He has two serious handicaps-he is associated in the public mind with utilities; he is unknown politically west of the Mississippi...
Died. Samuel Untermyer, 81, smart Manhattan attorney, orchid fancier and politico; of pneumonia; in Palm Springs, Calif. Lawyer Untermyer made $75,000 in his 21st year, was a millionaire before he was 40, made his fame as counsel for the Pujo Committee in the Congressional investigation of the "Money Trust." Some of his biggest fees: $775,000 for merging Utah Copper with Boston Consolidated and Nevada Consolidated; a cool million for reorganizing the amusement empire of William Fox. For three witnesses whom he examined, he expressed professional admiration : the late Steelmaster Charles M. Schwab, the late John D. Rockefeller...
Whatever the politico-philosophical views of Harvard's Regional Planners--and they seemed to meet the approval of the many high state and national government officials who protested suspension of the School in 1936--the University would be doing itself irreparable harm in abolishing the autonomy, if not the existence, of its Planning School. Whether Harvard's Administration likes them or not, the PWA, TVA, and WPA are carrying out the will of the majority of Americans that certain jobs be done, and done efficiently. And to do them efficiently, they need well-trained regional planners. Abolition of the Planning...
...First blood!" screamed Republican National Chairman John Hamilton. "Back to normalcy," piped Congressman George Bender, unfortunately reviving a word which many a G. O. Politico had hoped was forever buried with its begetter, Warren Gamaliel Harding of Ohio...
Cynical City. After 17 years in New York City, Thomas Dewey still bears the mark of Owosso. Newspapermen who got along fine with Jimmy Walker find him a little on the heavy side. Nor is the District Attorney a sophisticated, well-adjusted metropolitan politico like Republican National Committeeman Kenneth Simpson, who has a Matisse on his wall, Alexander Kerensky for his guest. Thomas Dewey takes his career and campaigning hard, has never been able, like most New Yorkers, to slide easily through the city's life, or pay without questioning the physical and intellectual tribute it demands. He remembers...