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Partly in answer to the effective protests that have come from many ardent, powerful, articulate friends of Zionism in the U. S. against more concessions to the Arabs, the Government emphasized that the "international character" of the Palestine mandate would be kept in mind...
...ardent theatregoer, Franklin Roosevelt prefers to watch movies at the White House. He has never said that Walter Huston is his favorite actor; he has never seen Actress Tallulah Bankhead, the daughter of his Speaker of the House, on the stage, but has met her at a White House reception...
...long. Notable exception is New York Times Correspondent William P. Carney, who has minimized Italian help to the Rightists, mentioned Moorish troops infrequently, reported denials of large-scale executions, called the Rightists "Nationalists" and described the Rightist reoccupation of Teruel seven weeks before that city was retaken. Even ardent Rightist Carney last week apparently felt he had to go to Gibraltar before he cabled that mediation was "debated on all sides from every angle" in Rightist Spain...
...During the campaign young Congressman Bulkley accused the American Bankers Association of bad temper and loss of dignity and some old bankers called him a radical. But when he was defeated for re-election in 1914, he resumed an orderly Cleveland career, as chairman of the Morris Plan Bank, ardent supporter of local opera, squire of a lakefront estate in Bratenahl, swankest of the city's 41 suburbs. The angel of Ohio's Democracy during the lean '20s, he asserted himself by running for an unexpired Senate term as a Wet in 1930, won by so large...
...After the game I wanted to meet you and also get your autograph, but circumstances prevented it. (Boo hoo!--'I'm not crying, that's rain in my eyes'). You know something--I've always been an ardent Navy fan in the past, but now suddenly find myself following the Yales. What's the answer? ('Can it be the gypsy in my soul...