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...last week a reporter went to call on Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King at his three-story brick house at 335 Laurier Ave. East, Ottawa. The housekeeper took him to the tiny elevator, pushed the button for the third floor...
...candle. His miserly Old Man Figuring seems to be plucking out sums like a harpist. Sometimes his stuff looks like-matchstick people that a U.S. Indian might have scratched on a rock. His Witch with a Comb would be an innocuous little old woman-in spite of her shoe-button eyes-except that her hands are arrows pointing straight down to the ground as if to say "I could kill...
When it was over, the guest of honor, a fat, button-nosed oldster who is regarded by his cronies as the spit & image of Jiggs, hustled back to work. George McManus was a little worried at taking two hours for lunch, even if Mr. Hearst was paying the bill...
...year-old Cordell Hull's wrath was the Army Investigating Board's Pearl Harbor report (TIME, Sept. 10). The report, branding his note to the Japs on Nov. 26, 1941 as an "ultimatum," had gone on to say: "It was the document that touched the button that started the war, as Ambassador Grew so aptly expressed...
After that, the corroboration of Joseph C. Grew, the pre-Pearl Harbor Ambassador to Tokyo, was an anticlimax: "[The Hull note] was in no respect an ultimatum.... I never said the Hull reply touched the button. I never understood how the board got that impression...