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...Mabel Thorp Boardman had come back from Berlin, where her uncle was U. S. Minister. Unmarried, she was no longer a Victorian young lady but a Victorian spinster. The Red Cross job was just what she wanted. Imaginative, energetic, with a passion for detail, she got to work with a will. Fifteen years later she was national secretary, has kept the job ever since...
Hereafter, when the Department of Justice looks prosecution-wise at any industry, its representatives can go to Washington, get the advice of such experts as Dr. Willard Long Thorp, top-flight Commerce Department economist, on the "economic aspects" of any consent decree to be proposed. The Department of Commerce explained that it wants to advise Business on steps which could not properly be discussed by the prosecuting Department of Justice. Since the right hand will know perfectly well what the left hand is doing, this will make it possible for the Government to prosecute and trade with Business...
Harry Hopkins was not solely responsible for his Des Moines speech. As with most key New Deal utterances these days, it was guided to the microphone by Janizary Thomas Corcoran. Economist Willard Thorp contributed the part on labor, Lawyer Ben Cohen the part on utilities...
Leon Henderson, Isador Lubin and Willard Thorp (TIME, Dec. 12). Shortly thereafter Thurman Arnold's Department of Justice trucked across the floor waggling a finger at patent monopoly in the glass container industries (TIME, Dec. 26). Last week it was the turn of SEC Chairman William O. Douglas. As everyone knows, Bill Douglas is a very agile fellow and when he revealed that his dancing partner would be the insurance business-far too dignified for Big Appling-everyone knew it would be fun watching...
Messrs. Lubin, Thorp & Henderson were unanimous that the Investigation must find a way to increase the earning-consuming quotient of the nation's low-pay masses if the U. S. machine's performance is to be made magnificent...