U.S. At War: Mr. Secretary Stettinius

Mr. Secretary Stettinius ( See Cover ) The Senate's Lone Ranger, North Dakota's Bill Langer, took the floor one day last week. He had an objection to make, to the appointment of Edward R. Stettinius Jr. as Secretary of State. The objection took up two and a half hours of his and the Senate's time, and filled 57 columns of type in the Congressional Record. But Bill Langer spoke with the air of a man who knew the truth of Ben Franklin's dictum that he who spits against the wind spits in his own face. He made...

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