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...small room in Cairo's Koubbeh Palace waited King Farouk. in the black & gold uniform of a field marshal. Opposite His Majesty, in the morning coat and red tarboosh of Egyptian officialdom, was the bride's father, Judge Youssef Zulficar Pasha, an old friend of Egypt's royal family and vice president of the Mixed Court of Appeals at Alexandria. Religious sanction was given by the presence of Egypt's supreme religious authority, Sheik Mustafa El Maraghi, of Ahzar University, and three other sheiks, all in purple robes and white turbans. Waiting patiently in an anteroom...
Planned Economy, an official Soviet organ which the state had scheduled for publication last June, finally came out last week. Accusing "Trotskyist wreckers and spies" of having "wormed their way" into highest officialdom in order to wreck planning at its source, Planned Economy declared: "Wreckers designated the construction of immense industrial enterprises at places far from raw materials, electric power and water resources. They hampered the development of districts possessing huge raw materials, resources and minerals, and they retarded the construction of important military enterprises...
What Chinese officialdom needed, the Generalissimo & Mme Chiang had decided, was a big dose of the castor oil of Puritanism. The tablespoon with which they dished this out they called the New Life Movement, and with every ounce of Nanking's authority they dosed all China. Batch after batch of local mayors and magistrates were ordered to Nanking, drilled and exhorted there in the primary decencies-to stop wiping noses on sleeves, to stop taking bribes from litigants. They were warned that he who did not practice the new Puritanism might expect the worst-and this was no empty...
...onetime WPA Airport & Airways assistant director who joined the Maritime Commission eleven months ago, and to Aeronautical Adviser Grover Cleveland Loening, under whose direct supervision the report was drawn up. Adviser Loening, 49, appointed to the Commission six months ago, is a rich, dapper socialite, honest and unafraid of officialdom. A life-long aviation enthusiast, and manufacturer of the world's first successful amphibian, he said two years ago in his book Our Wings Grow Faster: "The handwriting is on the walls for the steamship lines. ... At 500 m.p.h., 50,000 ft. above the ocean . . . this...
Coordinating the departments that watch over the progress of each and every Freshman is an important task. It is not unlikely that in the future one man could be appointed to have a position simply as coordinator of Freshman officialdom. The fact that an effort is being made towards alleviating a situation so detrimental to the career of the Freshman class as shown by last night's meeting, is in itself a step in the right direction...