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...Morison, who wrote a salty, prize-winning history of Harvard for its Tercentenary, is Harvard's official historian. He is also a Harvard legend himself. Fanatically fond of his university's traditions, he had the old pump restored in Harvard's Yard three years ago, presided solemnly at its dedication. He is a familiar campus figure, is often seen striding stiffly across the Yard in smart riding clothes. His students admire his scholarship, enjoy his classes because he humanizes history by such devices as describing Thomas Morton's Merrymount Maypole as "a roadhouse between Boston...
...regular press conference, openly adopted her ideas and figures of speech. In massacring his "Great White Rabbit" (Lend-Spend Bill) and refusing to revise Neutrality, he said a "gambling" Congress had made two enormous bets. One was that private enterprise would do the job that Government pump-priming has been doing; the other, that there would not be war in the world before January. In one case the welfare of 20,000,000 U. S. people was involved, in the other, 1,500,000,000 world inhabitants. He earnestly hoped Congress would win both bets, but plainly showed that...
When the rig was ready, two of the outlet tubes he inserted into the babies' nostrils. After they began to gasp again, he pulled out the nostril tubes, attached a rubber mask made from an old stomach pump in his instrument kit to the fourth tube, held it for a few minutes over each baby's nose. In a short time their pinched blue faces turned red again and they began to breathe normally...
...scheme made observers wonder if Mr. Jones had not been kicked upstairs instead of promoted. Only part of the proposed plan which the Loan Agency would supervise was the foreign business. Mr. Jones, professional banker, has been regarded by the New Deal as none too openhanded, no persistent pump-primer.* Secretary Henry Wallace, on the contrary, and John Carmody have ably learned the art of putting out Federal money, and the major portion of this new money would be theirs to put out. Mr. Carmody, large and brisk, has been the genius of REA, carrying light to farmers by Federal...
Washington heard that one to one-and-one-half billions was the total in the Lend-Spenders' minds for their new pump-priming act. Secretary Morgenthau was reported to have traded his support to the plan in return for the President's acquiescence in income tax revision (see p. 16). Majority Leader Barkley assured his Senate mates that the program, whatever shape it might finally take, would not be dumped sensationally into Congress' lap this session. The way for it might be paved simply by extending the authority of existing agencies, such...