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Myron C. Taylor, who stood beside him, did not bat an eye. A few days before, Lewis had described the former Chairman of the Board of U.S. Steel as a stooge of J. P. Morgan. Mr. Taylor's status had changed. Now he was, Lewis proclaimed, "an industrial statesman." Mr. Lewis bowed as he said...
...Japanese hotheads to even louder talk about a "Greater East Asia." The Axis Pact of a year ago brought the militarists still more kudos. As if to symbolize the militarists' ten-year rise to power, their greatest single opponent, the Emperor's most respected personal adviser, Elder Statesman Prince Kimmochi Saionji, died at 91. The Army topped off its glorious decade with its Indo-China grab...
Last week London's sharp-tongued New Statesman and Nation editorialized bitterly: "We have all but slipped into the American attitude of regarding ourselves as yet another arsenal of democracy which makes the tools which others use at the cost of their lives and homes...
Dieterle wisely lets Actor Arnold play Daniel Webster without trying to look like the great man. His Webster is not the violent Massachusetts statesman but a homely, gusty humanitarian. Jabez, his wife (Anne Shirley) and his mother (Jane Darwell) are first-rate as the kind of people who made New England "out of hard luck and codfish...
...short, round Santa Claus of a man, with a 5? cigar stuck in his mouth and a twinkle in his eye. He was also the greatest public-health statesman in the world. This week the full story of this remarkable man, Dr. William Henry Welch, and his remarkable career was told...