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...Spade-bearded Count Dino Grandi, onetime Italian Foreign Minister, onetime Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and most recently Minister of Justice, followed other Cabinet Ministers to the wars last week. British Broadcasting Corp. announced the appointment of his successor as follows...
Garden Logic. Murray is no wild-eyed rabble-rouser. He is a solemn, quietly dressed man who has his own garden variety of logic. He has put his spade into technological unemployment in steel; with a wry face has turned over many a fact: that, for instance, however effective they have been in lowering price, continuous automatic strip mills are, according to Murray's reckoning, displacing more than 84,700 workers. Says Murray: "I will not be sidetracked ... by engaging in any debate on whether these workers will or will not find other jobs five, ten or twenty years...
Said he: "Wendell Willkie will presumably go out here with a spade and dig up Bonneville and Grand Coulee. . . . The United States Government has $270,000,000 invested in Bonneville and Grand Coulee and I have more conception of the value that that investment represents than all the New Deal crew put together and piled up double...
Started as a voluntary organization by Alan N. G. Little, instructor in Greek and Latin, the spade work of the committee was done by Little and Henry Hope, also an instructor in Greek and Latin. Titular head of the committee now is Richard M. Gummere, chairman of the committee of Admissions, while Beatrice M. Taussig, daughter-in-law of Professor Taussig, the economist, is in active charge. Gerald F. Else '29, instructor in Greek and Latin, is treasurer. Operating on a shoe string, the committee meets its few expenses through private donations...
There he stayed. Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst became a Washington character. Tall, with the suave manner of a Shakespearean actor, he gave up his cowboy clothes for sleek, striped trousers, spade-tailed coat, pince-nez on a wide black ribbon. His speeches were orations, models of polysyllabic splendor. He described himself as a "veritable peripatetic bifurcated volcano in behalf of the principles of my party." But meatily between the thick-hunked verbiage were sandwiched slices of wit and wisdom. He was one man who dared to tackle rough-&-tumble Huey Long in debate on the Senate floor. He left...