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Famed Edouard Herriot resigned last week after 25 years as Mayor of Lyons, third largest city and "silk capital'' of France...
Lounging in flowered silk pajamas 3,000 miles away on the estate of Tammany Counsel Samuel Untermyer. Mayor Walker dismissed the accusations as "old stuff." Although he failed to make further comment, his home town press played-up stories about the beneficent effect of California sunshine on his health, accompanied by photographs of him wrapped in sheets, lolling in the sun. Adjacent to one such picture the World-Telegram printed a photograph of Mrs. Walker on her vacation-in Florida...
...What kind of clothes do you American women wear?" asked Mrs. Gandhi examining the stuff of Mrs. Johnston's dress. "Is it silk or satin? Is it hand-made or factory-made...
Quick-witted, capable, industrious, ironic, "Joe" Cotton preferred informality to diplomatic pomp. He smoked an old corncob pipe, cocked his feet up on his desk, "cut" dull official ceremonies, eschewed a silk hat. He had a forthright manner of cutting through diplomatic cir- cumlocution, which at first startled and later delighted foreign envoys in Washington. Once asked why he did not play medicine ball with the President, he replied: "Because it wasn't in the contract...
Heckled another, "I suppose you and him think you're Socialist! You in your black silk lay-dee-day-dee's gown this minit...