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Comrade Bulganin learned his machinist father's trade and was working in a factory when the Revolution broke. Promptly he threw down his tools, enlisted in the new "Red Army," fought through several campaigns against the "White Armies," rose to middling military rank, middling popularity. When Russia's civil war was over Comrade Bulganin's prestige carried him to directorship of Moscow's biggest electrical machinery factory. It did well. He received a Red order of merit, quietly became a power in the Moscow Soviet. He was elected its president-Mayor of Moscow-last year...
...Pilot Marshall Fay last January bought a $1 suitcase, had his name & address stenciled on it. After he finished using it he gave it to a traveling friend with instructions to throw it away. Month later the suitcase was returned to Marshall Fay by airplane, collect. In Newark he threw it away again. Before long he received a collect telegram from Boston announcing that the suitcase was found, was en route to Newark-collect...
Discovering a "public demand" for his services at Albany. Colonel Donovan last month threw himself ardently into a personal campaign for the gubernatorial nomination. His chief handicap is that he lacks the backing of the local Buffalo organization. In Manhattan he was given a dinner last week by the New York Young Republican Club at which he declared: "The American people must give themselves another Boston Tea Party and this time throw the pork barrels overboard." He flayed Governor Roosevelt's Columbus speech as "so much flypaper spread out in the hope of ensnaring the vote of the discontented...
...Assistant Secretary threw himself into his work at Washington. He chummed around with the flying officers, piloted his own plane hither & yon, brought the Army air service up to top-notch efficiency under the five-year plane-building program. When Trubee Davison's college friend and fellow flyer, David Sinton Ingalls, arrived in Washington as President Hoover's Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, there was the spectacle of two able, active young friends competing for Congressional appropriations...
...curious Edwin Krenn. Upon him she had depended entirely in her fading years. She forced him upon Chicago society, planned with him a $45,000,000 empire of realty. Last year she had to sell $18,000,000 in securities to protect her small householders. The faithful Krenn threw in his all?$1,260,000. Her brother John was said to have guaranteed her $1,000 a day for life, but neither he nor his father could swallow Krenn...