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...take their minds off the troubles of the business day. I speak not of them. I do, however, raise a meek voice for my shipmates and myself, who, when eight bells go and our long watches are over have nothing but a monotonous view of sky and water to greet our eyes. Day after day and night after night we come below to our rooms or to fo'c'sles bare and uninviting. Were it not for the books and magazines placed aboard by the American Merchant Marine Library Association we would indeed...
This Egyptian gibe at Il Duce's recent casting of himself in the role of Protector of Islam was more than matched by mocking English comments last week. "The dirty English!" screamed 250,000 Fascists massed to greet the Dictator on his return to Rome. "If war comes we will swallow up England. The dirty English...
Divorced. Hiram Bingham, 61, one-time (1924-33) Senator from Connecticut; by Mrs. Alfreda Mitchell Bingham, whom he married in 1900; in Miami, Fla. Grounds: mental cruelty. "He did not greet me the same way he did the two dogs. He took the attitude that I had a very inferior mind, a very inferior brain, and wanted me to understand he felt that way," complained Mrs. Bingham in testimony corroborated by Woodbridge and Jonathan Brewster Bingham, oldest and youngest of their seven sons...
...Radio General" Queipo de Llano ominously broadcast that White Generalissimo Franco "has enormous supplies of gas, but will not use it, unless Madrid uses it first." In Moscow jubilant Izvestia cartooned an Italian general squealing from Spain to Mussolini for help. In Spain the Red Militia were coached to greet Italian deserters from the Whites with open arms, cries of "Hurrah for the Italian People...
...every part of the country. He never fails to inquire about every El Pasoan he has ever seen in Washington. I have gone into his side show tent in half a dozen different cities but he has never failed to spot me, no matter how big the crowd, and greet me by name. I have been informed repeatedly of his doing the same for all other El Paso acquaintances of his, many of whom he knew only casually. Some years ago it was my privilege to have a rather lengthy conversation with Jake concerning the predicament that a faulty gland...