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...German Consul-General, cringing before the oppositions of a noisy Semitic minority, has chosen to ignore yesterday's escapade, and the N.S.L. publicity seeker is free again. He should have been shipped over to Germany, where they know how to handle his breed, and sterilized as an undesirable. Then, perhaps, there would be less Communist martyrs ready to follow his example. E. M. Miller...
...hour and a half, they alone knew. Mr. Dern explained that he had sought "general advice" on aviation. Some newshawks interpreted the invitation as another backtrack to cover the Administration rebuke dealt to Colonel Lindbergh whom Second Assistant White House Secretary Early had branded as a publicity-seeker for protesting the President's cancellation of airmail contracts (TIME...
...comes that Harvard becomes so narrow that it cannot include within its curriculum a few courses in the art of national preservation, Harvard had better cease to exist as a national institution, or as an institution of any kind. A Harvard diploma is a wonderful thing for a job seeker to wave under the nose of an employer, but it will not turn aside enemy gunfire, or protect the "guts" or "lack of guts" from an enemy bayonet. Perhaps, the author of the editorial is quite sure that he will never face an enemy bayonet. Such is his privilege...
...blaze of unwelcome publicity, he started a report for President Roosevelt on the recovery plan and a set of recommendations on U. S. policy at the London Conference. When a citizen in Oklahoma sent a telegram to "Bernard M. Baruch. Unofficial President of the United States." Mr. Baruch, no seeker after glare and glory, retired to his suite at the Carlton Hotel. "I'm not even a $1-a-year man." he joked, trying to dampen reports of his semi-official importance. "I'm an 85? a year man. The President has reduced all Federal salaries...
...what used to be known as the Railroad Presidents' Table. In the old days Edward P. Ripley, his great predecessor as head of the Atchison, and Paul Morton, Atchison man. Secretary of the Navy under the first Roosevelt, used to be his usual lunch companions. Never a publicity seeker, Mr. Storey kept his mouth shut about economics, attended to his job quietly, without worry, and brought the Atchison's earnings up to $23 a share in 1926. Thus he grew old gracefully, remained, until he shut his 40-year-old desk (inherited from Mr. Ripley...