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Unlike other Parliaments, Russia's is a sort of picnic. Three times a year waddling Eskimo delegates, wild-eyed Yakuts, bland Mongols, swaggering Tartars and other elected representatives of the Russian peoples are given a good time in Moscow and sent home as soon as possible. Last week Dictator Josef Stalin staged one more picnic Parliament with his usual firm finesse...
...doing transient business in a magnificent Florentine suite on the Sherry-Netherland's 14th floor. His rise to wealth began, like that of Owen D. Young and many another U. S. tycoon, on a farm 64 years ago at Sedalia, Mo. He still talks with a Midwestern inflection-bland, drawling, soothing. Sedalia he left when he was 24. going to Philadelphia. Soon he entered the publishing business, wrote and published Modern Illustrated Banking and Modern Illustrated Bookkeeping (which still pay him royalties through American Book Co.). He also operated as publisher in Rochester, N. Y. and New York City...
...decades has a U. S. Ambassador been withdrawn amid such withering blasts of criticism as huffed and puffed in Havana last week when lean, bland, Socialite Sumner Welles, jauntily swinging his cane, stepped into a Pan American Airways liner and roared off to Miami on his way back to Washington...
...bland British Captain Albert R. Francis rushed Mr. Untermyer, roaring protest. Rather than risk a large proportion of his company's business, Captain Francis acted promptly, jettisoned all the offensive gewgaws-nearly 1,000. As they plopped into the ocean Mr. Untermyer sat down to his dinner content. Later he went to his cabin, slipped on the edge of his pink tiled bathtub, cut a deep gash over his left...
...more than Prohibition. The War and post-War period so rusted the old machinery that even the base castings had to be scrapped. Liquormen know they will be exposed to fierce public criticism. What got under their skins at the code hearings last week was Washington's bland assumption that they were totally incapable of selfdiscipline. They were convinced that, if given a chance, they could push whiskey into a respectable place high in big business circles. Seton Porter and his associates were keenly aware of their social responsibilities. For his own company, as No. i whiskey...