The Hundred Percenters

November 6, I929 COMMONWEAL THE 6 graduate school studying history, literature, mathe- in glove with a Senate committee. If he had been, matics or anything else would be of more real worth...

...None of them have shown themselves the sort of men whom we should be very anxious to have in power in this government...
...One may affirm that his conclusions are tion's paid representative, as his secretary, and ad- supported in the main by Communists resident in other mitting him into the Tariff Committee's secret sessions...
...I probably made a mistake...
...Panait Istrati's source being placed on the government payroll...
...Recently he enrolled in the Holmes airport in Queens and has now become a solo flyer...
...Apparently than a term in the specialized writing courses, where he was a successful lobbyist, but for the most part his encouragement is the biggest thing to be had...
...How much less astute and how much more ridiculous we consider the lobbying interests since the great steel and ship men have confessed that they were RUSSIA AGAINST HEAVEN W HAT Soviet Russia intends to do about religion, fooled by Shearer, and that he put one over on them...
...Eyanson could attack his problem more directly...
...Thus progresses the cannot be suspected of reactionary tendencies, his education of Senator Bingham...
...But after reading the interview which Yee Ben Wee gave the papers, Between the apologetic shipbuilders and the wellsatisfied Mr...
...Both were willing to influence legislation in underhanded ways, and neither could justify it afterward...
...Boston, but he has visited China often, and it became the dream of his life to assist in its development by means of the airplane...
...Anyone who can detect any note of the Orient in this, any overtone how remote soever, deserves a prize...
...countries, whose knowledge of Russia is first-hand...
...What the Chinese will make of Yee we do not know...
...That they and many like them have a certain felt, may be one explanation for the bewildered and often contradictory courses that our Congress follows...
...Hubbard of the Connecticut Manufacturers' As- further attention to the matter seems permissible...
...The country needs the help of western science in bringing her power into dynamic We are glad that the Senate is turning on its harriers, being...
...China's vast undeveloped power, however, and are able to make its pressure areas," says Yee Ben Wee, "constitute a tremendous latent power...
...convince reporters, editors and publishers, a long and tiresome business...
...But when the recent dis- THE HUNDRED PERCENTERS extravagant political value it has been credited with...
...So judicious a mixture of East and West justifies the citation of Mr...
...Shearer's...
...The crisis in Russia's attitude toward religion was, a few weeks ago, was never lucky enough to work hand...
...This sociation has endorsed the Bingham-Eyanson entente...
...impressions of what is occurring...
...Shearer, whom everyone was taking a kick at truth...
...So long as Senator Bingham relied upon him so absolutely for advice, he had little worry as to what anyone else thought about Connecticut's tariff demands...
...Kipling should cancel his poem...
...work was done through the newspapers...
...Senator Bingham is not nearly so sure that the available evidence in a very depressing but informhe did the right thing in using Eyanson, the Associa- ative book...
...With an easier job and a more reliable salary, his lot was more fortunate than Mr...
...Or perhaps they are all like this too, by now...
...is now relatively simple, because M. Georges Goyau, "I approve of what Senator Bingham has done Ioo the French historian and academician, has summarized percent...
...Yee Ben Wee was born in an Orient...
...glad that in doing so it has further undermined the reputation of American business as the only twentiethcentury treasure-house of efficiency and honesty...
...I do not approve of the Here one of the most important documents we have practice of having someone receiving pay from another seen is likewise by a Frenchman...
...Shearer was out to save the nation...
...He had to WHEN Yee Ben Wee, the former Mort Street laundryman, took up flying with the object of bringing air-mindedness to the Orient, it was Is There inevitable that there should have arisen here and there murmured paraphrases of Kipling...
...If he had been, matics or anything else would be of more real worth possibly, he would not have lost his job...
...one feels that they have met only in the intimate and special sense in which the lady and the tiger met when out for a ride...
...During the last fifteen years it has not been hard to sell the country on the notion that business should control public office the assumption being that a straightforward sort of government would then be provided, with no under-cover dealings...
...Well, if they are, the East has stopped existing, and Mr...
...F IERHAPS lobbying investigations a not unhappy is the result revenge of the thus Senate's taken closures ago, it may are taken be that with the the word oil "business" scandals of will a few lose years the upon a system which has often made life burdensome to senators...
...writing everywhere bears the stamp of harrowing Mr...
...in particular the faith of the Catholic Church, how stubborn, and, to say the least, ungracious, since has lately started so many people guessing that some Mr...
...Kipling's metrical axiom, if only for the purpose of affirming contrarily that, in this case, the twain have met...
...Hubbard there is not much choice...
...And so far he has escaped with less blame than the naval expert, even though he was out to save the Connecticut manufacturers, where Mr...
...and since the author perts of the Tariff Commission...
...November 6, I929 COMMONWEAL THE 6 graduate school studying history, literature, mathe- in glove with a Senate committee...
...He L'Affaire Roussakov, while it does not treat directly now believes that a senator requiring advice and in- of religion under Leninist rule, confirms our worst formation on tariff problems should seek out the ex...

Vol. 11 • November 1929 • No. 1


 
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