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...lecture tour, the play complicates her progress by means of a young reporter who: 1) tries to make her socially conscious; 2) falls in love with her. When a cop bangs her on the head, she loses her interest in lecturing, and when her beau, a diplomatic bigwig, hurries over from London, she chucks her interest in the reporter...
...could deny that when Tom Dewey goes to the wars, he goes. U. S. political history had seen few cases of such violent campaigning before convention time. Last autumn aggressive "Buster" Dewey charted every trip, speech he must make, every bigwig he must meet before June, allotted his days and nights, set up his staff of 30 researchers to gather the material at a cost of $3,000 a speech...
...years the only Jew in Germany permitted to keep Aryan housemaids -by personal dispensation of the Führer. Ambassador Suritz was not "purged" when his intimate friend Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff fell from Joseph Stalin's favor, but few Bolsheviks close to a fallen bigwig survive for long. Last week the Moscow radio significantly broke a story that began the middle of last month when Edouard Daladier, then French Premier, sent his Moscow Chargé d'Affaíres around to ask Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov about a not only objectionable but very queer telegram handed...
This week was a proud one for old Blanford Dougherty. One day Congressman Robert ("Old Muley") Doughton and many another bigwig arrived at Boone to help him dedicate a new $150,000 science building. They praised a still greater Dougherty achievement: a system of State support for its public schools that is the envy of every other State in the Union (except tiny Delaware, which has a similar system...
Almost every U. S. business bigwig who has been to Moscow knows slender, dry, efficient Spencer Williams. Most of them have rushed to him at one time or another for help in dealing with Bolshevik mountains of red tape...