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...would not be undignified to say so, I would say it's lousy." David E. Lilienthal, TVA director, was called to the stand and declared the Cassidy summary "misleading." Comptroller McCarl, also called, said the summary was correct. For climax Representatives May and Maverick all but had a fist fight. Then the Committee took a vote, decided 13-to-12 to table the TVA bill for more power...
...Marshal Foch and onetime Inspector General of the French Army, emerged from obscurity last week to take part in the ceremony of relighting the Eternal Flame under the Arc de Triomphe. He was greeted with wild cheers. One passer-by refused to take his hat off. That started a fist fight. Nationalists in the crowd suddenly began to shout: "Put Weygand in Power! Weygand for France!" His admirers nearly tore for the clothes off the little soldier, forced police to hustle him to safety. It was a small but significant sample of France's current temper. Across the river...
...74th House he has to worry not only about Congressmen who made grief for other Speakers, but also about an unusually vigorous crop of newcomers. The House has a new clown in Representative Percy Gassaway of Coalgate, Okla., who wears cowboy boots, talks loud about fist fights, poses interminably for pictures and calls himself "OF Gassaway, the Oklahoma cowhand...
...only hope the French realize how much Germany would prefer the outstretched hand of friendship to the clenched fist!" cried General Goring, Premier of Prussia etc., etc. "Germany has no need to occupy Danzig by force, because natural laws impose themselves. . . . We are ready to cooperate for a world peace which respects Germany's honor and freedom. . . . Remember the Saar...
...been inside a school, he sold newspapers, slept on warm sidewalk gratings, learned to read at the Public Library. One job led to another until Samuel Rosoff was building New York City subways, operating bus lines, brewing King's beer, buying race horses and making money hand over fist. Today he often carries $50,000 cash in his pockets, tells competitors: "Money talks." Shrewd at dealing with all kinds of politicians, he boasts: "I'm a member of Tammany Hall and proud of it. I'm also a Republican and proud of that. ... I haven...