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...Widow Caraway behaves as her husband did in the Senate, she will seldom sit down in her seat. Instead she will clasp her hands behind her back and pace, shoulders hunched, up & down the aisles, back & forth in front of the lounges along the Chamber's rear wall. She will purse her lips, frown as though deep in thought, halt now & then to fix some speaking Senator with a sharp, doubtful glance. From time to time she will address the Chair to interject some comment, acid-humorous in intent-for her husband was the Senate's conscientious sarcastigator...
...President prepared last week to clasp hands with Premier Pierre Laval (see p. 18), a gentleman whose strong displeasure he incurred four months ago by asking that France accept at once the Hoover Moratorium (TIME, June...
Like two perspiring miners pickaxing toward each other from opposite sides of a stone wall were President Herbert Hoover and Premier Pierre Laval of France last week. They yearned, they slaved to clasp hands. From day to day the lessening thickness of the wall of disagreement could be measured in millions of dollars...
...only monarch absolute both in theory and in fact is the King of Siam. Last week this potent small man (98 Ib.) was en route to clasp hands in Washington with President Hoover. When he does so the King of Siam will be the first Oriental ever to enter the White House with the rank and dignity of Reigning Sovereign...
...known as one of Boston's ablest legal minds. He had entered Harvard in 1867 (among his classmates were Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Bishop William Lawrence, Charles Joseph Bonaparte). Unwary hazers remembered his stocky, undaunted figure: once he beat them off with upraised chair in one hand, menacing clasp-knife in the other. Two years later he was expelled for his pranks, went to Boston and passed his bar examination. The Harvard faculty invited him back. "Go to hell!" was his booming défi. He grew a long black beard, practised law. At 36 he was president...