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...moment later cheers from the crowds outside heralded the arrival of U.S. delegates led by Under Secretary Sumner Welles, who walked in, poker-faced, managing despite midsummer heat and a double-breasted blue suit, to look as cool as a glass of maté. The applause which greeted him was real. For the first time in the long history of Pan-American conferences, delegates, influenced by a common fear of Axis aggression and the past nine years of friendly U.S. relations, seemed to share a feeling that this time the U.S. was not a hypocritical boss but a Good Neighbor...
...Sumner Welles stepped to the podium. In a long and carefully worded resume of Axis plans, promises and attacks, Sumner Welles explained the U.S. position. Mr. Welles gave figures on U.S. armament production: "45,000 military airplanes in the coming year; some 45,000 tanks; 600 merchant ships. ..." Señor Ruiz Guiñazú ran his finger around his collar...
...barrel-chested, wing-collared young Yale instructor glared sternly at his pupils and in a voice that rang like an anvil began to lecture to his first class. He was William Graham Sumner. "He broke upon us," said a pupil, "like a cold spring in the desert." For 37 years Yale students were stimulated by that cold spring. When Sumner retired in 1909, an equally remarkable teacher took his chair. Last week Sumner's barrel-chested, stern-eyed successor, Professor Albert Galloway Keller, faced his last class...
...education has known no other such team as tough-minded old Professor Sumner, father of modern U.S. social science, who coined the phrase "the Forgotten Man,"* and Disciple Keller, who in 50 years at Yale (42 as teacher) made the Sumner tradition great. With Keller it was a case of love at first sight; from the day he entered Sumner's class he began to prepare to follow in the great man's steps, meekly bore Sumner's pronouncements on his habits, studies, marriage (Sumner was against it). Keller became as great a sociologist and anthropologist...
...Sumner himself chose Keller as his successor. He also left his pupil 52 big drawers jammed with 156,000 pages of notes. Keller spent 17 years organizing them and in 1927 produced an immense work in four volumes, Science of Society, which he credited mainly to Sumner. Once, when Connecticut's ex-Governor Wilbur L. Cross intimated at a public meeting that there was more Keller than Sumner in the book, Keller leaped to his feet to denounce the idea. But last week the William Graham Sumner Club (old Sumner and Keller pupils) decided that bluff Bert Keller...