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...ready. Taft made the usual motion to dispense with reading of the journal, a lengthy synopsis of the previous day's proceedings. Morse objected, insisting that the journal be read aloud. Under Senate rules, the rarely made request had to be complied with. For 26 wasted minutes the clerk read while Morse slumped in his specially built chair (it has an extra-long seat to accommodate the Morse slump). Next day, Morse "suggested the absence of a quorum," forced the Senate to adjourn a few moments after it had convened. The day after, he again forced the useless reading...
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, 63, Deputy Premier Minister of Foreign Affairs, who will run the cold war. Born in the European Urals, son of a store clerk, high school educated, joined the Bolsheviks in 1906. Met Stalin in 1912 when both edited an illegal sheet called Pravda, thereafter was Stalin's ever-loyal lieutenant until his death. Elected a Polit buro alternate in 1921, aged 31, the youngest ever. Premier 1930 to 1941 Minister 1939 to 1949. Uninspired, but crafty and stubborn negotiator. Irritated underlings call him Iron Rump, Lenin called him "an incurable dumb bell" and "the best file...
Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin, 58, Deputy Premier Minister of War, will boss the army, navy and airforce. Son of a factory clerk, meagerly educated, joined the Bolsheviks in 1917, fought in Siberia. Afterwards turned bureaucrat-businessman. 1922, chief od Russia's largest electrical equipment plant; 1931, Mayor of Moscow; 1938, chairman of GOSBANK (Russia's Federal Reserve). In 1941, doffed his business suit, became political commissar of the armies defending Moscow, full general 1944, marshal 1947, but is primarily politician bossing army professionals. Politburo member, 1948. Small, neatly dressed, goateed, mild in manner and tone. Married a girl...
Mattiwilda was born the fifth of six daughters of John W. Dobbs, an Atlanta railway mail clerk who is also a vice-chairman of Georgia's Republican State Central Committee. Her name was concocted from those of her maternal grandmother (Mattie Wilda), and she sees no reason to change it: "People usually remember it." She sang solos in Atlanta's First Congregational Church as a youngster, went from that to music studies at Atlanta's Spelman College. In 1946 she shipped off to Manhattan to study voice, but prudently supplemented her musical training with teaching credits, took...
Good Samaritan. In Lorain, Ohio, a housewife lost $135 cash and a $15 gas bill on her way to the Ohio Fuel Gas Co., went home to get some more money, was told by a gas company clerk that someone had just come in and paid her bill but had said nothing about the other...