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...beaming, bumbling, balding President William Green hailed the Hutcheson decision, which so clearly made possible continuation of corruption and racketeering rampant in some A.F. of L. unions. But Trust Buster Arnold merely fitted another cigar into his mustache and went to work. Deciding that labor's new Siegfried Line could not be carried by assault, he moved underground. He had to go there. No one else in the New Deal wanted to sponsor a measure which attacked labor's rights even if they were wrongs...
...plain, everyday small-size trucks). For the benefit of the visitors barrel-bellied "Frenchy" Raes, chief test driver for Dodge, gave one of the little command cars and a truck the works. Frenchy's working outfit was a white shirt, bow tie, suspenders, gray trousers, and a long cigar. The works consisted of darting up and down a 45% grade, growling through a fifty-yard stretch of gumbo mud that lay fender deep in a six-foot gully, then bouncing up the sides of the gully and tearing through a quarter-mile of heavy underbrush. Not even Frenchy showed...
...first meeting Mr. Churchill boarded the Augusta, moving jauntily in his cocky walk, a long, specially made cigar crunched in his teeth. He wore his Trinity House uniform of dark blue, the effect of its eight brass buttons slightly marred by the grey marks where he had hastily brushed away the little mound of silver grey cigar ash that collects on his stomach as he sits slouched down.* His zippered ankle-high shoes were half unzipped. He handed a letter to Franklin Roosevelt, said: "I have the honor, Mr. President, to hand you a letter from His Majesty the King...
Scene III: The two men face each other on deck. Franklin Roosevelt's cigaret is burning brightly at the end of his long holder. Winston Churchill's long black cigar, crooked between his fingers, has gone out. The two men shake hands gravely, then the President makes a crack...
...year allowance is reported spent within six months. ≤≤ Andrew J. ("Bossy") Gillis, ex-"bad boy" mayor of Newburyport, Mass., was sentenced to nine months in jail for libeling an Ipswich judge in his weekly paper, ≤≤ Charles ("Mickey) Norman, who hit the front pages for his cigar smoking when he was 14 months old, turned ten. "I don't hardly smoke cigars at all any more," he said. "They stink." ≤≤ Nathalia Crane, onetime prodigy poet (The Janitor's Boy, 1924), won a scholarship to enter Fordham's School of Education...