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Campaigning for a seventh term as Jersey City's mayor, cherub-cheeked Frank Hague rallied patriots to assist him in beating off foreign invasion. Roared the mayor reassuringly: "I am able to safeguard the lives of women and children...
...from the Treasury bench rose round, pink-faced Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood-known to the House as "The Cherub." In a clear tenor voice he piped: "What I want is cash." And for the next 91 minutes, speaking from notes written in his own hand, taped up in little bundles, one for each phase of his speech, he presented Great Britain with the heaviest budget in her history...
...invited his Cabinet to get up and march around the room while he stood one chair in the corner. When they sat down again, six had new chairs, there were two new players, and one was out of the game. In new chairs were: > Dapper, round-bellied Sir Kingsley ("Cherub") Wood, 58, who as Air Secretary had been more & more criticized for letting Britain continue to lag behind Germany in production of planes and training of pilots. Both press and House of Commons have been down on him for his secrecy about R. A. F. exploits. Into the very small...
...Down in the big chair Sir Kingsley had vacated sat lean old Sir Samuel Hoare, who had been Air Secretary twice before (1922-24, 1924-29). Although British experts think planes can be produced much faster than "Cherub" Wood produced them, few thought last week that Sir Samuel, most famed as the co-planner of the abortive Hoare-Laval Ethiopian deal, was the man to produce them...
...Cherub-faced, hot-tempered, earnest Thomas Mitchell likes to describe himself as a man "with two arms, two eyes, two ears and an appetite like anyone else." He is not like anyone else. Cinemacting is only his favorite role. He has also been: 1) a newspaperman; 2) a vaudevillian; 3) a stage actor; 4) a stage director; 5) a scripter...