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...next War Bond Drive. Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague kept an eye on the horses at Hialeah. Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly popped in & out again. Ex-Ambassadors Joe Davies and Joe Kennedy were at their Palm Beach houses, as was ex-Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles. Grover Whalen was down for a couple of weeks. President Alfonso López of Colombia suddenly left for home when he heard that the Colombian political situation needed his attention. But Otto of Austria stayed...
...Gumshoe Bill") Stone, the Missouri lawyer-politician who stubbornly opposed Wilson's war policies as chairman in 1914-18, than to the real statesmen who have held his job. Henry Clay (1834-36) had already served a term as Secretary of State before coming to the chairmanship. Charles Sumner (1861-71) was a diligent firsthand student of European peoples and governments, and an intimate of many foreign statesmen. The elder Henry Cabot Lodge (1919-24), whose judgment was warped by his consuming personal hatred of Woodrow Wilson, nonetheless rightfully held his title of "the scholar in politics." William...
UNRRA looked to New York's brass-lunged Ham Fish like a "gigantic international WPA." Illinois's Jessie Sumner had figured out that the whole thing was a scheme to "make Stalin dictator of Europe." California's Bertrand W. Gearhart cried that it was unconstitutional. For these and other objections, Republican members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee were ready with patient, sense-making answers...
When asked whether he believed in the necessity of a National Service Act, and whether he thought there would be one, Professor Sumner H. Schlicter, of the Economics Department, said "No. The government should have authority to call strikes back to work, as an obligation of citizenship, but it should not have the broad powers of shifting men from one job to another...
...last week most of the old crowd were already there. Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury, the Joseph P. Kennedys, the Sumner Welleses, were at Palm Beach. Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague, with Mrs. Hague and daughter Peggy Anne, checked in at Miami Beach. So did the small-fry tourists, the race-track touts, the racketeers both gross and petty. The sub-urbane Town & Country told its readers that simply "everybody" came down before Christmas this year. Miami hotels, turned back to their owners by the Army, were booked solid all the way to the end of the winter season...