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Meanwhile it was announced that the probable successor to Swan in February for the head manager's post will be Sumner Feldberg...
They are: "The Peoples of the Soviet Union," by Corliss Lamont: "Where Are WE Heading?" by Sumner Welles; "Soviet Philosophy," by John Somerville; and "These Are the Russians," by Richard E. Lauterbach...
...commission, which, as Lilienthal said, "will be pioneering in uncharted fields," includes, besides the former T.V.A. administrator, a physicist, a banker, an editor and a government bureaucrat. By law they are required to devote all their working hours to the atom problem. Except for Lilienthal and Sumner Pike, a former member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, none of the new boardmen has had experience in governmental activity. It would be disastrous, after wresting the power of the atom out of the hands of the Army, to put it in the hands of a logrolling candidate of Senator McKellar...
...Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor and a prime mover in the Committee for Economic Development, drew an analogy between the Democratic success in 1932 and the GOP sweep on Tuesday. "Every party has its blind spots," he explained. "One of the things which contributed most to the rejection of Hoover in 1933 was that he couldn't visualize adequately the problems of the unemployed and was very slow in getting the Government to help with relief. Now the Democrats have been in office long enough to get into some ruts--to develop some blind spots. One big blind spot...
...greatest show since N.R.A. went out. Adam is torn between policy meetings screen tests (Hollywood foresees a race of gawky, Adam-like red-heads) and experimental sessions with an adventuress, The Frame, who would give future generations that Vassar look. The villainess of the piece, female Senator Faye Sumner Knott, (sic) has predatory eyes slanted toward Adam, but partisan politics interfere. The first Adam is not to be Republican. In desperation, the U.S. turns to A.I. (artificial insemination), lest the Russians exploit two normal Mongolians newly discovered in Tashkent and outstrip the American effort...