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What Secretary Woodring's answer contained, only the Secretary and the President knew: it was too "personal" to be released. Next day the Senate clerk read out the names of President Roosevelt's two nominations for his Cabinet-for Secretary of the Navy: William Franklin Knox of Chicago. Republican Vice-Presidential candidate in 1936, supporter of the President's foreign policy; for Secretary of War: Henry Lewis Stimson...
...became a croquet-playing crony of Secretary Hull. But at his age, 72, it was dubious whether he had the stamina and vigor, for the tough, hard-driving job of arming the unarmed U. S. in record time. Unlike him, Frank Knox (66) came up the hard way: grocery clerk, gym teacher, sign painter, reporter to publisher...
...ended. Philadelphia was full of political comedy : Candidate Willkie walking down Broad Street, attended by a cheering crowd of somebody else's delegates; bands playing everywhere, always, and coming at delegates from all directions; 1,900 U. S. flags hoisted by the city of Philadelphia; a reading clerk, tuned up for the hurly-burly by practicing 30 minutes daily in a soundproof garage, reading Elaine's oration on Garfield; Boss Joe Pew saying, "I am for Governor James until hell freezes over or until we reach the 252nd ballot" - interpreted as meaning that he had switched to Willkie...
...last week flying columns of female New Yorkers stormed the hosiery counters of New York City department and specialty stores for the first big public sale of glassy, synthetic, much-publicized nylon stockings. In the words of one harassed clerk, it was "a madhouse." Elsewhere, in most of the hundreds of U. S. cities which shared the national debutx buyers were more philosophical, took their time about snapping up the latest addition to women's full-fashioned knitted hose...
...times My Favorite Wife tends to get bedroomatic and limp, but it pulls itself together in scenes like those in which Gary Grant scampers between his wives' hotel rooms pursued by the distrustful but admiring clerk (Donald McBride); or gets caught in his wife's hat and dress by a suspicious psychologist; or tears around in Gail Patrick's leopard-spot dressing gown. And there is Granville Bates's first-rate bit as a dumb, irate, fuddyduddy judge who, having declared Irene Dunne legally dead, declares her legally alive so he can hold her in contempt...