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Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: a shrewd, industrious legislator of independent intelligence but devoid of leadership: a good hater who is roundly hated; a voluble Progressive afraid to take a positive stand on the Mooney-Billings case in his own backyard: a would-be President embittered by successive failures: a loud vital force who will leave a large imprint on the Senate, if not U. S. history. His term expires March...
...organize the Reichswehr and quietly took up a post in the Defense Ministry. In 1926 he became Oberst (Colonel), in 1929 Generalmajor, holding down a job that friends thought should satisfy him for the rest of his life-chief of the Ministry's Organization Department. Apparently he was devoid of ambition, a confirmed bachelor with a ready smile and a fund of smoking car stories. He delighted in large pale cigars and French red wine. He went stag hunting every autumn and celebrated every kill with a carefully chosen dinner. Last year three things happened to change his entire...
...devoid of sentiment except in one matter-that of the Bohemian Union Bank," said Director Vavrecka last week. "It was the Olmutz branch of that bank which 30 years ago extended him the loan that proved to be the turning point of his career. Till the day of his death Mr. Bat'a insisted that all the business of his huge concern should go through the little Olmutz branch bank...
...electric chair is warming for its prey when the girl turns and saves her brother by pretending on the witness-stand to be an abandoned hussy, devoid of feel ing of any kind. This draws the jury's hate to herself, the brother is acquitted, as was youthful Edward Allen in Philadelphia...
...Manhattan's Dance Repertory Theatre, lecturing at the art museum, called the ballet "an artificial type of toe-dancing." German Dancer Mary Wigman brought to Cleveland her stark rhythms, her "rich speech of the body." Semenoff, intensely devoted to the oldtime ballet-school style, muttered that she was "devoid of grace, devoid of soul." He at least would make his pupils worthy of the old Imperial School. But his pupils, who had once included many a rich man's daughter, and such stars as Actress Olga Baclanova, began to dwindle. He began to brood, long and darkly. Last...