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...whipping boys for the rebellion were turned up every day. One was Mihai Itsa-Marin, one-armed mayor of the Bucharest suburb of Serban-Voda. accused, with his wife, of 87 murders during the revolt, of concealing 70 truckloads of Iron Guard loot in his home - cotton, wool, silk, furniture, canned goods, jewelry, silverware...
Last week Kenneth Farrand Simpson, 45, had had his first 23 days as Congressman from Manhattan's silk-stocking district. He had started briskly: he offered a substitute measure for the President's Lend-Lease Bill, along the lines of Wendell Willkie's suggestions, limiting the Presidential powers to two years, giving Congress greater control. The stocky, outspoken, ex-Republican boss of Manhattan seemed the most dynamic Republican freshman in a decade. He was counted on to bring to Republican counsels a liberal spirit, fruitful imagination and good-natured common sense...
After the great event all that remained was for the President to review the inaugural parade. Before the White House the wind was not so keen as on Capitol Hill. The crowd stamped less, cheered more, laughed more easily. It cheered the silk-hatted, beaver-collared President (who had borrowed Joe Davies' fur-lined overcoat). It watched with unexcited approval as General Marshall on his bay horse, King Story, went by with six aides and a cavalry troop, West Point cadets and Annapolis midshipmen. Brand new grey-green Fords rolled by interminably, carrying Governors and dignitaries. There were...
Second, Master Usni was wearing the national lower garment of the Thai people, a panung. It is worn by both men and women and is a piece of silk or other material about one by three yards. It is put on in such a manner that it does somewhat resemble trousers. But plus fours! No, TIME...
Sirs: The American sailor is without a doubt the best diplomat the United States could dispatch to a foreign land. With his knack for mixing with people, the gob has numerous advantages over the silk-hat representative of the State Department...