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Almost as well groomed as Foreign Secretary Eden, War Secretary Duff Cooper spoils the effect of the most expensive Savile Row tailoring by a nervous habit of shoving both hands through the armholes of his vest while speaking, turning fiery red when excited...
While British taxpayers were aching last week over the simple fact that increased armaments must be paid for (see above), Britain's Secretary of War. swank young Alfred Duff Cooper, jumped from the desk on which he keeps a mask of his famed actress wife, the former Lady Diana Manners, hustled down to Manchester. There he spoke his mind about the leaders of the Established Church of England in Manchester's Free Trade Hall...
Secretary Duff Cooper was doing his best to attract recruits into the service last week. The base pay of the British soldier has been raised from 27? to 50? a day about ⅔ as much as the U. S. buck private.' If his ability to polish boots and clean pipes wins him a job as an officer's servant, he can count on another $5 a month, and if he stays in the army long enough to win the stripes, red sash and silver-headed cane of a sergeant, he can earn more than $17.50 a week...
...Harriman bank stock on the market, he concluded that criminal prosecution of Bankster Harriman just then would endanger other Clearing House banks. To postpone such prosecution until the bank's affairs were in order, Mr. Harriman was eased into the board chairmanship, and Mr. McCain induced Henry Elliott Cooper, onetime Chase National vice president, to take the presidency of Harriman National Bank & Trust. On the witness stand last week Mr. Cooper recalled that Mr. McCain had said: "We won't let your bank fail, Henry. The Clearing House will stand behind you regardless." Mr. McCain later gave...
That, with wise direction, he can achieve something beyond the manly muteness on which his reputation as an actor has hitherto reposed, Gary Cooper recently proved in the Frank Borzage-Ernst Lubitsch Desire. Herein he gives further evidence of a sense of humor, thereby helps its authors and an expert cast make Mr. Deeds Goes to Town altogether worthwhile entertainment...