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...Jewish patriots (and hardened soldiers newly arrived from Poland) are the most eager recruits for the Jewish underground organizations. Haganah (numbering an estimated 70,000) was organized to defend settlers from the Arabs, now helps illegal Jewish immigration. Two offshoots, the Irgun Zvai Leumi (3,000) and the Stern Gang (2,300), are the terrorist groups who believe that the only way to achieve the Jewish state is to drive the British out of Palestine...
...Prompters. In the White House the word "gang" does not necessarily have a sinister connotation. Most U.S. Presidents have had their gangs, some big, some little, some called one thing, some called another. Jackson had the "Kitchen Cabinet"; its chief cooks were two Kentucky editors, Amos Kendall and Francis Preston Blair. Wilson had Colonel House. Teddy Roosevelt had his "Tennis Cabinet," the "high-minded and efficient set" of young men which included Gifford Pinchot and James G. Garfield. Harding had Harry Daugherty and Albert Fall, who belonged to his official Cabinet and doubled as part of the gang...
...Gang. Harry Truman's gang is large, loose-knit, amiable and loyal. Some members, like Judge Samuel Rosenman, serve only part time. Others serve as specialists, like David K. Niles, a New-Dealing Bostonian inherited from F.D.R., who advises on problems of minority groups (currently, U.S. Zionists). At least one, Major General Harry Vaughan, holds a kind of honorary membership. Vaughan, who once burbled from the pulpit of an Alexandria, Va. church "I don't know why a minister can't be a regular guy," has one quality which endears him to the President: he is what...
...kitchen cabinets and brain trusts, the membership in Harry Truman's gang shifts and changes. Long forgotten are burly, apple-cheeked Hugh Fulton who talked too much, and Omaha insurance man Ed McKim, who served with Harry Truman in the field artillery but was deemed dated for modern Washington. Wrinkled old Admiral Leahy no longer sees the President regularly. Even National Chairman Bob Hannegan has had to take a seat somewhat to the rear...
...some of Hollywood's most highly respected pictures. They have also launched many a Hollywood "trend": film biography with George Arliss' Disraeli (1929); a new gangster cycle with Little Caesar and Public Enemy (1930-31); social-consciousness movies with I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932); the first big backstage musical, 42nd Street (1933); the first attempt to sound-film Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream...