People: Statecraft

Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder had happy news. Six months after he had asked ex-Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. to send back those public documents that Morgenthau had taken for his diary, Snyder had everything he needed.

Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, whose close attention to what interests Kansans has helped keep him in the Senate for 28 years, dutifully took to the air after some visiting farmers raved about the uses of the light plane (e.g., crop dusting). The Senator took his first flying lessons, at 82. He explained: "I think I...

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