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...Solemn-looking, thin and hollow-eyed, one of the richest men in the U. S. admitted in a Chicago Federal court last week that he was guilty of a crime. His crime: evasion of Federal income-tax payment in 1936. The criminal: Moses L. Annenberg (publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily Racing Form, etc., etc.). Maximum penalty: five years in jail, $10,000 fine. Without admitting Government charges (soon to be dismissed) that he or some of his companies had also evaded income taxes in 1931, '32, '33, '34, '35 and '37, Publisher Annenberg agreed...
...picture of the little girl shows her to be a thin. sad-eyed, frightened child who looks in need of nourishment. The letter expressed a hope that the leaders of the children's colony would be able to dispel her sadness...
Next day in Amsterdam, Netherlands Foreign Minister Eelco Nicholas van Kieffens, an extraordinarily thin man with big nose, little chin, thin hair, hollow eyes, called in Japan's Minister to The Netherlands Itaro Ishii and told him that The Netherlands Indies wanted no protection from anybody, thanks just the same. But meantime Jean Charles Pabst, Netherlands Minister to Japan, called on Mr. Arita to thank him for upholding the status quo. These contradictions were not the reaction Mr. Arita was most interested in hearing. That came two days later...
...Neville Chamberlain's "parsimony"; when Chamberlain was Chancellor of the Exchequer. Day after Lord Woolton joined the Cabinet Mrs. Chamberlain introduced him at a"Better Cookery" campaign meeting as follows: "Since arrangements for this meeting have been made some body has been busy changing Cabinet Ministers around." (Laughter.) Thin-lipped thin-haired Lord Woolton started off nicely in his new job by talking modestly to the housewives in terms they understood. "I suppose I am really going to run the biggest shop the world has ever seen - to supply the nation's food. It is a stimulating thought...
...Rola Rola, a handsome Brazilian couple who perform on a thin board on a roller...