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...Arthur L. Michel. With them they brought their pet lion, King Tuffy. During business hours King Tuffy walks a tightrope. Mr. Matthews stowed King Tuffy in the back yard, but early one morning Tuffy became disquieted and started to roar. Disquieted neighbors, too, started to roar-among them Alderman Hugo Pape. Rhetorically asked he: "What is this, Africa?" Alderman Pape summoned the police, who inspected Tuffy, but decided they had no jurisdiction over lions...
...members of the Committee, however, were able to keep the proceedings on this elevated plane. Senator William H. Dieterich, onetime school- teacher and alderman of Rushville, Ill., the very cartoon of a porcine, "practical" politician, was inclined to grunt at witnesses. Originally noncommittal on the President's Plan, he lately got a bit of patronage in the form of an appointment to a Federal judgeship. and by last week he was dutifully surly toward the Opposition. To those whose answers did not suit him, the tone of his retorts was rough. At one point Professor Griswold of Harvard said...
...second World Power Conference in Berlin six years ago; Japan's beaming Professor Masawo Kamo, who has a flair for oratory in broken English accompanied by dra matic gestures; Britain's horsey-looking Evelyn Hugh Boscawen, Viscount Falmouth, Governor of the Imperial College of Science & Technology and Alderman of London; Sir Harold Hartley, round-faced research director of the London Midland & Scottish Railway; Sir Archibald Page, smart technician who is head of the County of London Electric Supply Co.; Mrs. Gertrude Ruth Ziani de Ferranti, widow of England's famed electrical inventor; France's Minister...
After years of earnest but unsuccessful campaigning as a candidate for everything from Alderman to President, Socialist Norman Thomas remains today one of the most polite and well-mannered politicians in the U. S. Last week the onetime Presbyterian minister again made courtesy pay dividends in the form of headlines when he drew from Governor Landon a notable clarification of the Republican Presidential nominee's position on Labor...
Irish wit could have produced nothing more grossly absurd, for there was no evidence that His Majesty has anything so foolhardy in mind as trying to put the two irate parts of Ireland together. In Dublin recently a Catholic alderman warned the Lord Mayor that he will probably be manhandled if he attends His Majesty's Coronation. Last week President de Valera formally announced that that piece of pageantry will be boycotted by his Free State which by no means has King Edward in a baby carriage...