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Behind such trifles was masked the significance of the Black committee's resumption of operations. Its investigation of airmail contracts had made a headline stir which the U. S. would not soon forget. But unfinished was its more important inquiry into what profit the U. S. Government got from selling $559,000,000 worth of ships for $40,000,000, from lending $145,000,000 to shipping operators at infinitesimal rates of interest, from paying $140,000,000 in ocean mail subsidies during the last five years...
Previous to his visit to Widener there was a little stir among a few of the officials who couldn't remember whether Harry Elkins Widener had gone down with Lusitania or the Titanic...
...assistant general counsel. He had a large hand in drafting the Stock Exchange Control Bill and, contrary to all rules, sat on the floor of the House during consideration of that measure to prompt its "sponsors" in debate. Not until his presence seemed likely to cause a Republican stir did he retire. Besides Cohen, there are others like him: Dr. Jacob Viner (Treasury Department), Norman Meyers (Interior Department), Abe Fortas and Lee Pressman...
...last year regardless of his guilt or innocence. Despite all this, the Hitler government still demands his extradition to the Fatherland, Normano, or Lewin, demands his freedom, and Uncle Sam is left stauding alone to make a decision, which, no matter on whose side it falls, is bound to stir up ill-feeling against the mediator...
Though he thinks Mexico City an unanswerable "argument against our present economic system," mass movements, whether political or esthetic, fail to move his scientific enthusiasm or stir his particularistic curiosity: "It will be interesting to see whether the revivalist enthusiasm worked up by Communists, Nazis and Fascists will last longer than the similar mass emotion aroused by the first Franciscans. . . . Folk-art is often dull or insignificant; never vulgar, and for an obvious reason. Peasants lack, first, the money, and, second, the technical skill to achieve those excesses which are the essence of vulgarity." Author Huxley speaks for the majority...