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Through the Hard Years. General Chen relieved General Ho Ying-chin, 55, who had held his post since 1930. Minister O. K. Yui relieved H. H. Kung, 63, the Generalissimo's brother-in-law, who is now in the U.S. These were the men who had helped steer China through the country's most difficult years of war. Now it was up to their successors to steer through the difficult years ahead. But H. H. Kung remained as vice president of the Executive Yuan. General Ho remained as Army chief of staff...
...open back seat of a Packard touring car, Candidate Roosevelt set out, bundled to his white-stubbled chin in a beaver-collared overcoat, his old brown campaign fedora scrunched on his balding poll. Beside him sat Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, shivering in a lightweight topcoat, his nose and chin blue with cold. The sky was lead-colored, the wind sharp. Franklin Roosevelt coughed occasionally and his eyes watered behind his pince-nez. But at Poughkeepsie, Wappingers Falls, Kingston and Newburgh, he waved his arm, grinned, bobbed his head vigorously, spoke cheerfully to the street crowds...
...been working on a no-quarter basis, is supposedly the first woman to be admitted to the rim of a Pacific Coast copy desk, is known to be equipped with a sulphurous vocabulary. She gets news in brusque, traditional police reporter fashion, chases ambulances at any hour, sticks her chin into any situation. Her writing is straight, sometimes awkward, always humorless...
...from The Bronx to Harlem, from Harlem to the canyons of Manhattan, and down Broadway. All along the 51-mile route were crowds, heads covered with sodden newspapers or umbrellas, legs chilled by the wind, feet soaked. Water rolled down the President's cheeks and dripped from his chin, stood on the lenses of his pince-nez. His thinning hair was pasted flat, and the raindrops trickled down the sleeve of his right arm as he raised it again & again to the crowds. Sometimes there were cheers, and sometimes little more than the swish of heavy tires...
Officers' Mess. In Washington, the Internal Revenue Bureau ruled as legitimate business expenses, and therefore deductible on income tax returns, all "scrambled eggs" (visor scrolls), gold braid, lace, "chicken guts" (shoulder aiguillets) and chin straps...