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...Republican Congress they would become, respectively, Speaker of the House and chairman of the House Rules Committee. And, said the President, he just wanted to remind the voters that, if Republicans should gain control of the Senate, his "old friend," California's 78-year-old, rock-ribbed isolationist Hiram Johnson might become chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and North Dakota's isolationist Gerald P. Nye would head the powerful Appropriations Committee...
...point the St. Roch broke out the blue ensign to signal a settlement of Aleuts. The Aleuts refused to answer until the St. Rock ran up the Stars & Stripes. They thought their visitor was a Jap ship...
...biggest, most expensive, most marmoreal mansion of all was that of hot-tempered Major Augustus Parkington (Walter Pidgeon). The Major built it as an anniversary present for his wife Susie (Greer Garson), the pretty little boardinghouse keeper from Leaping Rock, Nevada, and to open it planned the most elaborate ball of the season. But the Major was a crude fellow in the eyes of his neighbors and, when the night of the ball arrived, the Four Hundred cut him dead. Furious at the insult to his wife, the Major proceeded to ruin the remiss millionaires, one by one. When Susie...
...from her German home at 15 (her father used to beat her over the head with his pipe), went on the stage, turned reformer, was jailed eight times, in 13 years hawked 99,000 copies of the Birth Control Review on Manhattan streets, was called by Margaret Sanger the "Rock of Gibraltar...
Nahas' sudden dismissal would rock the new Pan-Arab League. There was a slight morning-after feeling as two other signatory Premiers - Syria's Saadallah El Jabry and Lebanon's Riadh El Solh-emplaned for home on "urgent business...