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...Jose Antonio de Aguirre y Lecube of the Basques. If a devout Catholic and a communist fanatic could be rolled into one, the result might approximate President de Aguirre. He keeps a tall ebony-&-gold crucifix on his desk but pounds this piece of furniture with voluble class-conscious vim remindful at times of Father Coughlin. As the offensive of General Mola was just getting under way, Basque de Aguirre went on the air with an impassioned broadcast...
...making gradually amused Mme Bietrix more & more, until finally she greeted its close with a derisive shriek of laughter. Snapped Mme Blum, turning around furiously, "Hush up! You couldn't do as well as he!" Other statesmen's wives seated nearby joined verbal battle with such vim that the Chamber entirely dropped work, amused Deputies had eyes only for Herriot's box, the Premier's wife flushed beet red realizing that she had perhaps not behaved quite as the Premier's wife should, and devoted M. Blum hastily rushed upstairs to soothe her and calm...
...everything that can be said against the New Deal has been said. Last week in Chicago Nominee Knox said it all over again with a vim which so impressed the Republican National Committee that it decided to keep him almost continuously on the stump until November. Because Vice Presidents do not make national policies, he did not presume to set up a Party program but confined himself to straight-forward criticism, bold but not bitter, vigorous but not violent, scorching but not sarcastic. Excerpts: "An endless succession of interferences and experiments was inaugurated under the deceptive slogan...
...huge estate with electrically-lighted waterfalls in Alta Canyada, Calif., is an efficient horseman, pistol shot and fisherman. He can look ahead to many a Boddy publishing year not only because he is 42 but because his two sons Robert, 16, and Calvin, 14, pitch into newspaper chores with vim and ambition when they go home on vacation from San Diego Army & Navy Academy...
This time he got up to the ground floor, and safely inside. He landed a job as salesman for a new patent medicine called Vinol, sold it with such vim & vigor that at 25 he was able to organize Drug Merchants of America, a buying agency for retail druggists. The scheme burgeoned, flowered into United Drug, with Liggett as secretary, then president and general manager. When a bright employe coined the name Rexall for Liggett's patent medicines, his Boston factory was continually racked with growing pains. Though "Liggett's own deepest convictions were against" chain stores...