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...Much shrewder and more to the point, Mr. Whitney last week wrote a letter to each & every one of the 800 corporation heads whose stock is listed on the Exchange. This list, on which the public value places a valuation of $50,000,000,000, is not only a roster of U. S. Big Business but it also blankets most of the work of the nation and the livelihood of millions and millions of people. Through corporation presidents and officers Mr. Whitney was, in effect, aiming his appeal at the smallest stockholder and the lowliest employe. Said...
...magnum opus, including Christendom's best-known book, few true-blue Jewish novels aim at or succeed in putting Christian readers in a state of grace. Solal does just that; it is a wild, melodramatic romance, stuffed with grotesque comedy, Old Testament lamentations, sensual psalms, shrewd cynicism and shrewder kindliness, ending finally in pure parable. When Solal appeared in Paris in 1930, even the French literary press sputtered : "A great Jewish novel . . . a great book . . . tumultuous . . . explosive . . . overbrimming...
...further thought, however, it becomes evident that he could hardly have made a shrewder political move. The chorus of praise from even conservative Republicans has shown that his losses are largely imaginary, while the echoes from liberals and Democrats have shown his gains to be real. With unusual strategy, he has done the nation a great service while at the same time serving his own political interests...
Recent developments in the South made these Chicago tycoons interest in cotton shrewder than it had seemed. Fortnight ago Louisiana passed a law. sponsored by Governor Huey Pierce Long, outlawing cotton planting for 1932. This statute designed to up this year's crop price, would take effect only when States producing 75% of the total U. S. cotton crop enacted similar laws. Governors throughout the South turned to see what would be done in Texas which produces approximately 30% of all U. S. cotton and without which no cotton plan could succeed...
...with his own eyes and hear with his own ears, and, if he runs to the professor in the end, it will not be to sit out a recitation or lecture, it will be to pump him, principally to check up on material previously gathered or to obtain a shrewder, more matured and balanced interpretation...