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Chief reason why NDAC has been able to thread a decisive way through Washington mazes is that its guide (and secretary) is a veteran civil servant named William Henry McReynolds. Reputed to know more about the ins & outs of the vastly proliferated Government structure than any man in Washington, leisurely "Mac" McReynolds is as deadly accurate as George Marshall would like his officers to be. Scottish and canny, he has worked in every department of the Government as payroll employe or efficiency expert since he left his law office in Battle Creek 34 years ago. For Herbert Hoover he helped...
Other decrees provided for the removal of any civil servant deemed unworthy of his post, and stipulated that Government jobs or commissions in the Army and Navy could be held henceforth only by persons whose fathers were French citizens. The word "Jew" was not mentioned in a single decree, but "Jews not wanted" signs began to appear in shop windows...
With proper pomp and ceremony, Bishop Manning last week installed another dean: dark, handsome Dr. James Pernette De Wolfe, 45, formerly rector of Christ Church, Houston, Tex. Prayed the Bishop before the installation: "Almighty God, the Giver of all good gifts. . . . Grant we beseech Thee to this Thy servant, whom we receive this day as Dean of this Cathedral, that he may . . . dwell with his brethren in this Thy house in perfect love and peace...
Otto Strasser was born in Bavaria 42 years ago, of a civil-servant father who was a Socialist at heart, a mother who nagged the Socialism out of him. When he emerged from World War I at 20, Otto was a creditably decorated artillery Lieutenant, already tinged with politics. His Socialism was such that he fought with Von Epp's Free Corps in 1919, to break Munich's Communist government. (Hitler did not. But he was in Munich then, may have been with the Communist troops...
...Roosevelt has many qualifications even for that stupendous job. Much has happened since he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy in World War I, when he first emerged as a farsighted, clearheaded, efficient public servant. Franklin Roosevelt laid up war materials for two years, preparing the Navy so thoroughly that less foresighted War Department chiefs had to beg Woodrow Wilson to give them vital materials out of Mr. Roosevelt's hoarded plenty. More than any man's, his was the vision that saw the need of mining the North Sea's northern entrance, the strength to override...