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...Three Illinois Republicans: Senator C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, isolationist pawn of Chicago Publisher Robert R. McCormick; billiard-bald, Throttlebottomish Congressman Stephen A. Day, who in 1941 said a U.S. war would mean "National suicide . . . and economic slavery"; blonde, blue-eyed Congresswoman Jessie Sumner, who calls herself a "Miss-Representative," and coins many a corny crack ("I may be an old maid but I want to be the mother of my country...
Tense, troubled Chile seemed to be moving toward a break with the Axis. Sumner Welles's bald statement that both Argentina and Chile were harboring Axis spies (TIME, Oct. 19) had made the nation tenser, more troubled. The outsize staff of the German Embassy in Santiago was obviously doing more than shuffling papers. Last week Chile's big, greying President Juan Antonio Rios called his Cabinet to the Moneda Palace and presently the Cabinet resigned in a body, "to leave the President absolute liberty of action...
...Tyler Page, 74, clerk of the House of Representatives from 1919 to 1931, "minority clerk emeritus" thereafter, House employe for over 60 years; on his birthday; in Chevy Chase, Md. He went to work as a Congressional page when he was 13; Chester A. Arthur was President. As clerk, bald, trim-mustached, meticulous Page wore a tailcoat, a white-edged vest, and manners to match. He became an authority on Congressional procedure. The 100-word American's Creed, which he wrote in World War I, is still one of the Printing Office's bestsellers...
...became Director of Economic Stabilization. Four days later, Franklin Roosevelt added six more: to represent labor, farmers and management. Five were well-known presidents of well-known pressure groups.* Least known to the U.S. public, but highly respected in Washington for his practical know-how, was the sixth: bald, outspoken Ralph E. Flanders, 62, a shrewd and independent Yankee and a top-drawer engineer...
Mightily pleased was bald, businesslike Robert H. Hinckley, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Air, who had kindled this fire. Cried Hinckley: "History has faced us with the plain alternative: Fly-or die! The entire nation must become air-conditioned. . . . We shall be thoroughly air-conditioned when we are not startled by the proposal that school children visit the Arctic by transport plane to study Eskimos in their native habitat...