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Signs of Nervousness. This week inside the Kremlin, in the palatial chamber of the Supreme Soviet, more than 1,200 voiceless legislators of the U.S.S.R. gave the façade of legality to the succession of Malenkov, Beria, Molotov & Co., formally "approved" unanimously the new government and the abolition of more than half the cabinet jobs that existed under Stalin. Some of the deputies had traveled for days from the Asiatic reaches of the U.S.S.R. to reach Moscow. They were ready to head for home after a "legislature" session of 67 minutes...
...million thanks for publishing "It Happened One Night." To my mind, Mark Twain and George Ade in collaboration could have written nothing wittier...
...friend," and then invited him to a well-publicized White House luncheon as a campaign boost. After Pearl Harbor, Young Bob supported the bipartisan foreign policy, but late in the war he put on his old isolationist hat again. The United Nations, he said, was "a gilded façade for the old-style military alliance built exclusively on force...
...ade. In Houston, the city council voted to accept a new $2,700,000 police headquarters and jail, but withheld $25,000 from Architect Kenneth Frankheim's fee because he had his name engraved in marble on the front of the building, put the names of councilmen on a bronze plaque inside...
Their deceptively innocent emblem was the Renaissance façade of the Campidoglio, Rome's city hall, designed by Michelangelo and beloved by all Romans. They called their candidates' roster the Lista Cittadina-the citizens' list...