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...million Americans who, since July 4, 1776, carried this luggage to continental conquest and world leadership, exhibit in their personal and public characters the dynamism of high tension between contrasts. This is not a quiet or consistent people. Its restless side is mirrored in Thomas Alva Edison and Upton Sinclair and the music of George Gershwin. This same people reveres Robert E. Lee, a Christian conservative rebel, and produces figures like Henry Ford, a radical businessman, and William Green, an archconservative labor leader. Of the 300 million Americans, none has shown in his own person the contrast, the tension...
...aides neglected to check with him. Meanwhile, Commissioner Richard McEntire and Chairman Donald Cook are ready to step down, leaving only two commissioners-not enough, under law, to run SEC. Eisenhower's choices to fill the gaps: Democrat Andrew Jackson Goodwin, an Alabama banker, and J. Sinclair Armstrong, a Chicago lawyer...
...member of the Eisenhower Administration last week warned businessmen of their new responsibilities. "Business is on trial in Washington," Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks told a convention of magazine publishers at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. "Business is also on trial in Wall Street and Main Street . . . In the days of Horatio Alger and Calvin Coolidge, business was the pin-up hero. Then came the financial crash and the Depression. That tragedy gave every rabble-rouser a chance to blame business . . . It has taken business more than two decades to climb back to where it is respected and trusted again...
Late last month Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks took a wide sweep with his new broom and dismissed Dr. Allen...
After squirming through three weeks of committee hearings, Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks has reinstated Allen V. Astin as Director of the Bureau of Standards. But his original decision to fire Astin revealed political pressures on this essentially un political body which return to status quo cannot erase...