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Franklin Roosevelt, sensitive as a weather vane, had already detected this new mood, had shrewdly addressed Congress in like temper (see p.19...
...complex (and too daring) to be easily loved by all men in all times. He was interested, beyond dilettantism, in agriculture, architecture, languages, literature, music, religion, astronomy, zoology, chemistry, mathematics. He designed Monticello, filled it with inventions like the first dumbwaiter, first swivel chair, a weather vane which could be read by a dial indoors. He introduced the first upland rice and cork oak to U.S. soil...
...which the public, industry and labor alike had confidence, were now within sight of roofing this house with a definite pattern of dispute settlement, under which all disputants would automatically turn to mediation machinery, would never strike. As last week opened, Davis was ready to nail on the weather vane: for the first time in seven months not a single actual strike case was before the Board...
Squeeze Play. By itself, the incident of the Shanghai Marines was not serious. But it was so as a weather vane. Nor was it the only indication last week of the new direction taken by Japan's "divine gale"-that Heaven-sent wind, part good luck and part opportunism, which the Japanese say is wafting the New Order over East Asia...
That tradition is emblazoned in the House Coat of Arms, rung out once a month by fifteen tons of Russian bells hung in the vane-topped tower, observed once a week at the ceremonial High Table. That spirit lives in every one of the 292 members who inhabit the maze of rooms. That way of life, shared by all members, is cemented by a constant round of communal activity--the Christmas play, the seasonal dances, the year-round sports competition. After ten years of incessant building, the House is infinitely more than a place to eat, sleep, and study...