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Franklin Roosevelt's "old friend and neighbor" did not look like the operating' head of a big dyestuffs and camera com pany at first blush. His most famous previous jobs: 1) defense counsel (successful) of Mrs. Anne Urquhart Stillman in the scandalous 1921 divorce suit brought against her by her husband, the late New York Banker James A. Stillman; 2) representing Edward ("Daddy") Browning in the "Peaches" Browning 1926 separation action; 3) defense counsel (un successful) for U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Martin T. Manton against bribery charges...
...C.I.O. United Construction Workers. If he gets the job, A.F. of L. unions have threatened a Michigan-wide general walkout. FWA has asked OPM, Justice and Labor Departments for advice. When Feudist Palmer takes the stand later this week, it will probably be Carmody's turn to blush. One man who will neither take the stand nor blush: F.D.R., whose failure to delegate complete responsibility to any one man is responsible for this and many another defense mess...
Totally unreconstructed, however, was the Sunday Times (no relation to the Times). Its leading editorial said roundly that the U.S. should blush because the flow of war supplies to Britain is not a "river" but a "stream...
...pleases. But Administration strategists went to work on Ellender, finally persuaded him to accept an extravagantly meaningless substitute amendment: that nothing in the act should be construed to change existing law about the use of the Army or Navy. Even callous reporters gulped at that one; but without a blush Ellender then voted against his own amendment when it was reintroduced...
...spends the whole night trying to get out of a scrape with a little French girl) gets in a neat piece of acting. Others like the villain Johnson, played by Richard Wiechmann, mother-in-law Charlotte Armstrong or demure Claire Johnston have little chance at anything but a blush or a shrick. But they and the whole cast, in fact, can do this...