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...Newest FORTUNE survey of public opinion last week brought an oversized headache to many a G. O. P. politico. It found that Franklin Roosevelt would at this time receive more votes for President than three other leading Democrats and four leading Republicans combined...
...Reynaud, like many another European politico, believes that international economic collaboration, especially between Britain and France, is the only possible basis for a lasting peace when World War II is over. But Finance Minister Reynaud had come to talk about fighting the war before liquidating it, and in his conversations with Sir John Simon he got what he wanted...
...intimate associations with John Lewis in the United Mine Workers (before C. I. O. was formed), with A. F. of L.'s Founder Sam Gompers, with many another Laborite and politico, impersonal Author Green tells almost nothing. The one anecdote in his 194 pages of record and analysis concerns John D. Rockefeller Jr. (see col. 2) and the ill-famed Ludlow "massacre" at a Rockefeller coal mine in Colorado, where eleven children and two women suffocated when National Guardsmen burned a strikers' camp. Mr. Green was dedicating a monument to the Ludlow martyrs of 1914 when a closed...
When her postmaster father, appointed by Lincoln, died, she filled out his term, was officially designated for the job by Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor machination of local politico has interrupted her service since...
...school, preach an esthetic doctrine of flag-waving. Writes Critic Craven, himself a Kansan: "These vigorous Americans . . . have achieved a body of painting . . . which has announced the beginning of a distinctly American style." Editor Boswell makes the eagle scream louder, says contemporary U. S. painting is "bred of politico-economic nationalism and the concurrent resentment against the high-pressure dumping of inferior foreign art on the home market." His small-town merchant advice: "Patronize your local art exhibitions...