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Neither Haywood, Reuther nor anyone else in sight has the stature or wisdom of Phil Murray. By coincidence, both Harry Truman and Ben Fairless used the same term in eulogizing Murray this week. They called him a "Christian Gentleman," a hard term to earn in the vortex of a social storm...
...Union Pacific, Harriman went to Washington as one of Franklin Roosevelt's "tame millionaires" to help out in NRA. His old friend Harry Hopkins-whom he had met at a Long Island croquet party in pre-New-Deal days-eventually pulled him into the White House vortex. Harriman's first big job for F.D.R. was to work out the provisions of Lend-Lease aid to Britain. His second assignment was to get aid to Russia, and in 1943 he was appointed Ambassador to Moscow. Harriman was never dazzled by the Communist dream, was skeptical of the Kremlin...
...paraphrase of his Return from the U.S.S.R. (1936) and Retouchings of My Return from the U.S.S.R. (1937), perhaps the most famous anti-Communist accounts ever written and among the best, but chiefly of biographical interest now. It is Koestler and Silone, who went deepest into the vortex of revolutionary activity, who emerge with the profoundest insights...
There is a fascination in fear. There is a vortex that surrounds the concept of doom . . . No terror is greater than the unknown except the terror of the half-seen...
...group around Mr. Conant was almost impenetrable, a fact which caused fretting among these circling on the periphery. In the vortex, Mr. Conant was slowly revolving as questions--the usual questions--were...