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...President coolly announced the appointment only 24 hours after beet-nosed Mr. McKellar and his Tennessee colleague, Senator Tom Stewart, had called at the White House to try to head it off. Said McKellar: "We protested with all the vigor and zeal we have...
Relief Administrator Hoover had one great advantage: he was the absolute boss, responsible to no one except the President; there were no international complications. But he also moved with vigor and energy...
...first words and actions, thoughtful citizens could weigh their President only tentatively, but they had a fuller chance to size him up as a personality. He seemed to fit the advance notices as a classic product of rural Missouri-full of the unpretentiousness of farm folk, brimful of quiet vigor and determination...
Already Germans were getting their first, all-important impressions of foreign rule since 1813. The reasoned vigor of General Eisenhower's regulations made sense. Sometimes the variation in their execution did not. At München-Gladbach last week a military government's court for civilians sentenced two boys (16 and 17) to death for spying. Both the sentence and the scrupulously just proceedings impressed the Germans. Leniency in other cases, when death was promised by the regulations but not enforced, made Germans sneer behind their hands. In occupied Germany, among a people who would surely compare...
People at arty New York cocktail parties think the bearded man in the shabby clothes who is sometimes invited is a hum, but unlike the other residents of the Bowery, Gould is not a shambling, blank-expressioned alcoholic. He has a spark of vigor--some people call it exhibitionism--and a broad Harvard A that sets him apart from the rest...