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...President's wife), who got the Democratic nomination to Congress in a suburban Detroit district. Comely, brown-eyed Mrs. Roosevelt, mother of three daughters, concert pianist, once headed the State's WPA music project, beat five opponents, campaigning as an all-out supporter of the Administration and critic of Congress for lagging behind the people on war issues. She faces a hard fight in November: her district has been regularly Republican...
That still left him time for contemplation, and he had several subjects worth reviewing. There was, for one, the consideration that as a forthright critic of Churchill's war prosecution he has for two years served as whipping boy for the Prime Minister's parliamentary tempers, receiving rebukes distinguished for their sting, even in the House of Commons. He could also reflect that it is nearly three years since he held Government office, and that the British people are looking for new leaders. He could reflect that, like the great Cardinal Wolsey in 1530, he arrived...
...Boer, Greco-Turkish, Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese wars, World War I, the Boxer Rebellion, and part of the Sino-Japanese war, helped found The China Press, first U.S. paper in Shanghai, and Millard's Weekly Review in Shanghai. More honest than discreet, he was a frequent critic of U.S. policy in China, a more strenuous critic of Japanese policy. He was adviser to the Chinese at the Paris Peace Conference, the League of Nations sessions from 1920 to 1922, the Far East conference in Washington in 1921. High on Japan's official blacklist, he came home...
Then Dramatic Critic Alan Dent, who organized the party, presented Sir Max with 57 bottles of old wines. Sir Max blinked happily, remembered his neighbors in Abinger, the Surrey village where he now lives, said: "What will the villagers think now of old Gaffer Beerbohm...
Author Ormsbee's hero is Abner Coe, an American who is forced to join the French in the Maginot Line through the accident of having been born in Paris. In civilian days Abner was a music critic, bedding down when the whim took him with a lady newspaper correspondent...