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Foresighted, tradewise Oliver Lyttelton, British Minister of Production, last week put in a bid for postwar British trade with booming Brazil. He recognized what many a U.S. trader with Latin America has not yet realized: that Latin America's larger republics are growing up industrially, that in the postwar world concessions must be made to their development. Said Lyttelton...
...that history is solely a matter of economics, for there can be ecological, juridical, libertarian, moral, religious, philosophical and idealist interpretations. What is the harm in knowing how much real estate George Washington possessed? And why not admit that Robert Morris was an iron manufacturer and a West Indian trader? If we know these facts, and others like them, we can begin to understand the animus of Jacksonian, Populist, Bryanite and Bull Moose debtor classes against many things that have been done in the name of the Constitution. The economic interpretation is one key to history. And mark it well...
Most powerful sponsor of U.M.W. readmission was Hutcheson. The Carpenters' chief, Federation Republican war horse for the last three Presidential campaigns, shares Lewis' rancor against Franklin Roosevelt. A veteran hotel-room trader, Hutcheson heard the siren song of the A.F. of L. presidency in the deals arising from the Lewis application...
Last week his American friends finally learned what 47-year-old Captain James Arthur Kehoe, peacetime tobacco farmer, stove manufacturer and general trader of Maysville, Ky., had been up to. He had been surveying the jungle, dickering with the savage Naga headhunters of the region, and setting up a series of vital military outposts in the trackless country between the U.S. air bases in northern Assam and Jap advance lines in Burma...
...class of 1918, he resigned from the Army soon after World War I, asked for active service again after Pearl Harbor. British officials, whose effective administration stops short at Nagaland, soberly advised against his mission; but after a thorough aerial reconnaissance of the saw-toothed, jungle-matted mountain ranges, Trader Kehoe jumped off with their qualified blessings...