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...jumped Majority Leader Robinson to invoke the most solemn of parliamentary devices: to direct the Sergeant-at-Arms to preserve order in the Chamber. Senator Pittman put the question. Senators Robinson, Borah & Copeland shouted...
...days later Beals's uncertainty shone even more brightly in an interview with swart, little Strong Man Fulgencio Batista. "I can never become President," said this onetime Cuban Army sergeant. "The people cannot be deprived of their politics. But if we were to hold elections soon they could not beimpartial. Such elections would merely appear to be a maneuver to defraud the will of the people. I believe in the fullest democracy, but at times it is out of the question. I do not believe in dictatorship, yet some peoples need good dictatorship. . . . We must buy back some...
Died. William Boyd, 45, saturnine stage and cinema actor (not to be confused with William ["Bill"] Boyd, younger film actor); of gastric hemorrhage, in Los Angeles. His most famed role: as Sergeant Quirt opposite the late Louis Wolheim's Captain Flagg in What Price Glory...
...whole row was started by General Hugh S. Johnson. Having written the Blue Eagle's biography for the Saturday Evening Post, he was now about to launch his own in Redbook Magazine, which more than 20 years ago printed stories by Lieut. Hugh Johnson entitled "The Suffragette Sergeant" and "Fate's Fandango." As a send-off for the series, Redbook gave Autobiographer Johnson a banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan. The General paid for his meal with a speech...
Home for lunch one day last week, Sergeant Jurney answered the telephone, heard Mr. MacCracken offer to meet him at the District of Columbia jail at 3:45 that afternoon. Sergeant Jurney was there on the dot, but not Mr. MacCracken. He drove up at 4 p. m., explaining that he had started out without knowing just where the jail was, lost his way. Lugging well-labeled suitcases, he marched inside the dingy red building, was searched and fingerprinted. Past the cell-block where ordinary jailbirds are cooped he was led into the mess hall reserved for "short-termers," then...