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Legion Lobbyist John Thomas Taylor once got a virtual bouncing for daring to enter the ornate President's Room where Senators and newshawks confer. But while the Spanish War pensions bill was pending in the Senate, gallery spectators observed another veterans' lobbyist in the Senate chamber itself, not merely sitting on the lounges in the rear but brazenly occupying Senators' seats. As a onetime (1925-27) Senator from Colorado, big. white-haired, black-browed Rice William Means had a right to be on the Senate floor. As tactful lobbvist-in-chief for United Spanish War Veterans...
...reparations for besmirching Argentineans' reputations!" after the U. S. Senate's munitions probe charged the acceptance of bribes by Argentine Army munitions buyers (TIME, Oct. 8). Scared underlings finally broke to General Justo the extreme difficulty of persuading the U. S. Government to let itself be sued, the virtual impossibility of collecting reparations from Washington. Such might be the facts, General Justo admitted, but he would find a way to get the "damned Yanquis" yet, and anyone else who took Argentina's unsullied and inviolate name in vain. With extreme satisfaction the President finally thought up and signed...
William Wesley Waymack, 46, associate editor, has been in charge of the editorial page since Editor Ingham's virtual retirement. Like the Register & Tribune's famed Cartoonist Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, now on leave of absence as Chief of U. S. Biological Survey, he was hired from the Sioux City Journal, He is reputed the best amateur candy maker in the Midwest...
...Huey Long, a virtual wreck, began to sidle toward the door...
Various facts made the Polish censors' job an easier one. For years Wralrus Pilsudski had been a virtual recluse, disdaining interviews, refusing to receive distinguished guests. The Government made no effort to hide the fact that he was sick, but the 67-year-old dictator, despite his hoarse profanity, his swaggering and sabre rattling, had been in poor health for years. He was a martyr to severe attacks of asthma ever since his exile in Siberia 48 years ago. Thus several days ago when a famed cancer specialist arrived from Vienna, few Poles were smart enough to guess...