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Throughout the report Almazan's claims and viewpoints are quoted frequently, those of the opposition never. . . . For all of which I don't give a tinker's damn except for the timing of the article. Our Good-Neighbor policy is urgently necessary to us today...
...Yorker by birth, dry, soft-spoken Professor Gabriel, 50, has done all his teaching at Yale, with time out as an infantry lieutenant during World War I. In the past eight years his course in "American Thought and Civilization" has significantly outstripped in popularity elegant Professor Chauncey Brewster Tinker's "Age of Johnson" and now, with 350 students, has the largest crowd in the university. Textbookish in getup and without resort to charm, his book is strictly and impressively U. S. stuff, the richest work of its kind since Parrington's Main Currents of American Thought...
Ailing for more than a year, Walter P. Chrysler sat last week at his home on the shore of Long Island's Little Neck Bay. Not for months had he been seen around the docks where in days of health he loved to tinker at his motorboat engines with his derby awry and his white shirt rumpling up under his suspenders. Not for more than a year had his quick laugh been heard in any of the 24 Chrysler plants. His friends feared that Board Chairman Walter Chrysler, burned out at 64 by the gruelling drive from the roundhouse...
...Hill estate as a national monument. Senator Glass, bitter at his Government and angry with its leaders, contented himself with a snarl at an unnamed official of the Interior Department, who, he said, "does not think Patrick Henry's achievements or his fame are worth a tinker's damn" and who had "emasculated" the bill with nullifying amendments. Carter Glass asked Senate emasculation of the amendments, passage of his original bill. He got it a few gavel raps later...
...where 460 engineers and draftsmen are at work, to peer at blueprints and drawings. Sometimes he goes through the plant, where 6,000 mechanics turn out his ships in a method as nearly resembling straight-line production as fee aircraft industry has yet approximated. But Glenn Martin does not tinker with airplanes any more. He tells other people what he wants. When he returns to his office he is as unruffled and immaculate as before. A fussy dresser, he goes in for double-breasted suits in sturdy fabrics, insists that his tailors (Bell & Co., Manhattan) put cuffs on his coat...