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...joint committee of five Senators and five Representatives to search into the "cold, unvarnished, indisputable facts." No favoritism should be shown, he warned. Nor should the investigation be carried out with "the purpose of gratifying the misanthropic hatreds of any person toward any present or past public servant, high or low, living or dead...
...Senate, knowing full well that the public servant Barkley had in mind was the man notably unnamed in the Army & Navy reports-Franklin D. Roosevelt-adopted Barkley's resolution without dissent...
With him was his "socialist dog," born under Prince von Starhemberg's Fascist guns in 1934, which had accompanied Gedye through all his travels. Due back with him shortly, too, is blond, fortyish Madame Lepper, ex-Austrian civil servant, British by marriage, who started as Gedye's secretary, is now almost his collaborator...
...Down Upon de Pedee. As every "Believe It or Not" reader knows, Stephen Foster never lived farther south than Cincinnati. He got his love of Negro music from a mulatto servant girl in the household...
Through his postal-inspection tours, which he made on horseback, he discovered his greatest passion - foxhunting. Ireland's informal manners and poverty not only made him feel at ease, but gave him dignity. To the amazement of his superiors in London, he became a respected, hard working civil servant. He made his first return to England at the age of 30 with a bride, a decent salary, and his first novel, The Macdermots of Ballycloran...