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...photograph of four men in what was apparently an office anteroom was handed each candidate (see cut). He was allowed to look at it for five minutes, given 30 minutes to answer 25 questions about what he had seen. Samples from the "horse sense" test...
Justice Edward J. McGoldrick ruled against a jury. Counsel ordered Helen Kane to remove her coat, arrange her hair like Betty Boop. Defendant Fleischer produced three babyfaced young women who do the singing for Betty Boop cartoons. A court anteroom was darkened and three Betty Boop cartoons and one reel of a Helen Kane picture were projected on the wall. After this, Justice McGoldrick ruled that he had had enough, demanded records and music sung by Helen Kane and Betty Boop before he made a decision. Grown fatter but still talking with the voice of an indignant doll, Helen Kane...
With both Reno and Wallace, George Peek has much in common. He and Reno served on the Committee of 22 in 1926-28. Reno was an ardent supporter of the McNary-Haugen bill, which Peek instigated and lobbied through Congress from Vice President Dawes's anteroom only to have Calvin Coolidge veto it twice. Both Peek and Wallace used to be Republicans. Wallace shifted parties after his father, Henry Cantwell Wallace, President Harding's Secretary of Agriculture, died in 1924, his last days clouded by Secretary of Commerce Hoover's frustration of his plans for farm...
...Into the anteroom of Undersecretary Dean Achesonon the second floor of the Treasury Building in Washington, big-framed Jesse Holman Jones and Henry Morgenthau Jr. strode at 9:30 one morning last week...
...White House. The moose-tall figure of Britain's Sir Ronald Lindsay came & went repeatedly at the spacious office of Secretary of State Cordell Hull. France's plump, smiling Paul Claudel, soon going home, clicked his heels up & down the stone floors. In the Secretary's anteroom with its stiff jet-black furniture and portraits of Hughes. Lansing, Colby and Kellogg, Italy's Augusto Rosso, proud of his "Americanism." waited his turn. So did Belgium's May, gazing wistfully out the window at the Victory monument of the A. E. F.'s First Division...