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...Speaker cannot make a speech. So he seethed in silence for three years, then resigned and made one of the most startling speeches ever made to a provincial house. In a bull voice he roared his personal view of his own party, the opposition, the people, even the weather. Gist: they were all awful. When World War II came along, he went overseas as a major. In Ottawa last week, officials who should know were betting that he would wind up in Prime Minister King's Cabinet...
White House reporters were on their way out of the President's office with the week's gist of press conference news. Suddenly he halted them, smiled apologetically, announced that he had another special message to Congress...
Shattered Europe's health is not so bad as might have been expected. But the worst may be yet to come. Such was the gist of an UNRRA report last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. In Paris, Major General Warren Draper, chief of the public health branch of the Allied Military Government, said the same...
...dealer, and the receipt shows that Göring paid 200,000 marks ($80,000) for it. Hofer estimated the value of the picture at $150,000. There is also a rather acrid exchange of letters in the Göring files between Hofer and a Swiss lawyer, the gist of which is that the Reich Marshal was expected to pay more than he did for a certain item...
...gist: fix the selling price of the plants on the basis of their actual postwar "use" value, rather than on their sky-high original cost...