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...Germans advanced, Moatsie and the other correspondents were evacuated to Kuibyshev. She made Correspondent Quentin Reynolds sweep the floor of her compartment. But things were no better in Kuibyshev itself. The plumbing was terrible. Moatsie shampooed her hair, and the Iranian Ambassador had his servant fetch water from the Volga to rinse it. Moatsie gave in. For months she had struggled against the sex prejudice that had tried to get her out of Moscow. Now, she exclaimed to the press bureau chief: "Do you think I am crazy enough to stay on in a place where there...
...John Anderson, Lord President of the Council since 1940 and No. 2 man in Winston Churchill's War Cabinet, was indirectly threatened with imprisonment last week unless he watched his step. A civil servant since 1905, Sir John became known as "The Man Without Mercy" for his administration (as joint Under Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) of Britain's Black and Tan police during the Irish Rebellion of 1919-21 and for his stern rule as Bengal's Governor from...
...King's Bench Justice, Sir Travers Humphreys, 75, famed criminal lawyer and onetime Cambridge rowing man. When the Government's Attorney General maintained that the Home Office action did not constitute contempt, Mr. Justice Humphreys snapped: "An official of the Home Office is not the servant of Sir John Anderson. Both are servants of the Crown. . . . Are you saying that it is for some subordinate in one of the Ministries to decide what this Court will look...
...Public Servant. In Red Hook, N.Y., Highway Supervisor Oliver E. Rider decided not to collect $1,225 owing him for road improvement, explained to the town board in a letter: "In view of the fine spirit of economy you have shown to the taxpayers of our town by doubling your own salaries and decreasing mine, I feel sorry for the taxpayers, and have arranged to make a present of this bill to the town...
This week when Leon Henderson officially stepped down from head of the Office of Price Administration, U.S. business saw not just the departure of an able public servant but another blow at an economic philosophy which has already stubbed its toe on hard economic fact and hard, economic...