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Early last week, as Congress surged toward adjournment, Candid Cameraman Thomas D. McAvoy of Washington made his way quietly into a Senate Gallery, sat down behind two visitors. On the Senate floor below, Louisiana's Long was in the midst of his filibuster which marked the closing hours of the Senate session. Next to him sat Arizona's white-suited Ashurst and just beyond, Oklahoma's blind Gore, his head attentively lifted. In his frontrow aisle seat slouched Senate Leader Robinson, disgusted beyond words at the "Kingfish's" performance. Around the walls of the chamber stood...
Every leading Briton seemed on the qui vive last week to thwart Benito Mussolini's candid designs on Ethiopia. Political fossils like bemonocled Nobel Peace Prizeman Sir Austen Chamberlain, shaggy-maned David Lloyd George, Tea-pot-Tempester Winston Churchill- and Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, who has lately collected 11,000,000 British straw votes for Peace, all hustled in to see Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare...
...frankly, a series of sketches dealing with college life in general, with two amiable, intelligent, irresponsible Harvard boys in particular. Last week Author Flandrau prefaced a slim collection of these sketches with a long, ingratiating introduction almost entirely given over to an account of the formidable difficulties that a candid young writer faced in a period when editors were cautious to the point of timidity...
...associate since the close of 1911, he brought to the service of the Bank an unremitting and loyal attention to every duty, a breadth of contact and experience that proved increasingly valuable, an exact and candid judgment dominated by principle and a crystal conscience...
...Said candid Dr. McDowell: "Madam, I can do you no good. Your situation is deplorable. John Bell, Hunter, Hey and A. Wood, four of the first and most eminent surgeons in England and Scotland, have uniformly declared in their lectures that such is the danger of peritoneal inflammation, that opening the abdomen to extract a tumor is inevitable death. Notwithstanding this, if you think yourself prepared to die, I will take the lump from you, if you can come to Danville...