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Once at the conference, where the chips were down, Ed Stettinius did well. His formal address, otherwise not memorable, was replete with restrained good will and good sense. And his personal breeze and vigor won the delegates...
When Kahn replied that he did not think the idea timely, Harris flung out: "I asked for your money, not your advice." Despite his bellows and bravura, no body has ever denied Harris' charm when he wants to display it, or his unfailing vigor in the theater. Remarked one friend : "Jed will quarrel with you, he will embarrass you, he will break your heart, he will drive you crazy - but he will al ways be good for the show...
...Greece, No Apologies. "I have never been connected with any large enterprise of policy about which I was more sure in mind and conscience of the rectitude of our motives, of the clarity of our principles, and of the vigor, precision and success of our action, than what we have done in Greece...
...effect, have not been getting their rights to free speech under labor's Magna Carta-the Wagner Act. Said Jackson: "I must admit that in overriding the findings of the Texas court we are applying to Thomas a rule the benefit of which in all its breadth and vigor this court denies to employers in NLRB cases. . . . However, the remedy is not to allow Texas improperly to deny the right of free speech but to apply the same rule and spirit to free speech whoever the speaker...
...theocracy was, moral martinets though they sometimes became, the Puritans sailed their ships into the open seas. They cultivated their moral strength like athletes training, and they used that strength out of doors, in the world, as statesmen and soldiers. "We are still drawing upon the reserves of spiritual vigor which they accumulated...