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Last week President Brown undertook to give the American Bankers Association in New Orleans (see above) a definitive exposition of the current business viewpoint. Commented Financial Editor Ralph Hendershot of the pro-Roosevelt New York World-Telegram: "Few speeches have ever been made . . . which presented the position of so-called big business so well. . . . The Republican party could build its entire campaign around his speech...
Manuscripts such as may be seen are interesting not purely from an historical and literary viewpoint, but rather more from the viewpoint of the intrinsic value of the man derived from them. His letters and manuscripts give a new insight into the nature of the writer. A memorandum found among his papers after his death has rather pathetic reference to his ill health and the discouraging effect which it had on him. "I am glad," he writes, "to say that I do now recognize that I shall never be a great man," and in another place he indicates that...
...Southerner, member of an exalted Dixie family, rich, and venerated in his native Nashville, he made the initial mistake, when he conceived the idea of a personal newspaper organ, of choosing Northerners to pilot the sheet. Among those he chose were Editor Herman Suter, a Pennsylvanian, whose only Southern viewpoint was gained while a football star at Sewanee: an ex-AP-er, Smith, whose Yankee tang was all-too-revealing, as managing editor: a chief editorial writer . . . who had a Harvard accent. I was a cub reporter, imported from Washington where I had worked with Suter. Even my Washington accent...
...music makers cannot be asked to pay their own expenses. Nevertheless, the intricate alphabetical evolutions between the halves are a major feature of the afternoon for the average spectator, and to even the most austere enthusiast the prospect of a game without Wintergreen is dull indeed. From the viewpoint of the team, too, the band is definitely an asset. The blare of a brass horn has the heartening effect of a dozen cheers. Enthusiasm next week is expected to be high; Princeton is obviously one of the major opponents of the season and Coach Harlow's men deserve every encouragement...
December 9, "The Administrator's Viewpoint of Planning," by Louis Brownlow, of Chicago, III., formerly city manager of Petersburg, Va., and of Knoxville, Tenn., and now Director of the Public Administration Clearing House in Chicago...