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...that his resignation would be in the hands of his board of visitors within six hours. To no avail the Senator from Cherokee recanted. To no avail did excited Legislators follow the insulted General out of the building with mollifying words and gestures. "I understand the English language," said blunt General Summerall...
...black jacket, white tie and suede-topped buttoned shoes wagged his short forefinger at the President in high-laced shoes and conservative business suit, making hotly such points as that France will not stand for having another Moratorium thrust forward from the U. S. "suddenly and brutally."? Equally blunt was Mr. Hoover, according to some reports, in challenging the French thesis of "Security before Disarmament," insisting on "real disarmament" when the Disarmament Conference meets...
...late Nicholas Longworth and John Nance Garner was the fine limousine supplied to the Speaker of the House (TIME, Nov. 17, 1930). Last year's car was transferred to the Senate and the Treasury was prepared to buy a brand new one for Speaker Garner. Last week the blunt little Texan announced...
...present curbs on the sale of firearms to be extended to blackjacks, clubs and other blunt instruments...
...Davenport - Putnam ($3)- Many a rough, brutal life is epitaphed into marmoreal propriety; but this biography of hardboiled, cynical Boies Penrose fits its subject. From the typical disillusioned newspaperman's attitude, with no kinship to the polished Lytton Strachey school, Power and Glory sets forth briefly, competently, in blunt, sensational journalese, the true story of a bold...