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...German people know he never rests from his heroic labors, dashes constantly up and down the Fatherland in multi-motored planes, never smokes and subsists wholly on fruit, vegetables, nuts, and dairy products. Last week the Vegetarian Superman flew over Poland's hated Corridor to a big cozy country house at Neudeck in East Prussia. There he gripped hands with that hearty eater of tenderloin steaks, pork sausages, pigs-knuckles and chopped raw beef & onions, President Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg. In a sense the meeting was historic. It marked a knife line between the original Hitler Cabinet...
...bloodless surgeon," Dr. Adolph Lorenz, made huge headlines in 1902, waited nervously for the train to take her from Chicago to her summer home in Santa Barbara, Calif. With her were a Negro nurse, a quantity of milk, a newly adopted son aged five months. In the corridor stood Husband Mitchell, discovered by newshawks despite the best efforts of railway officials. While Mrs. Mitchell pounded on the stateroom door, shouting to him to say nothing, Mr. Mitchell said he had "no idea" what the baby's name would be, boasted: "He's perfect...
...through. The legislative wags put a cup of ice water in his chair, tossed an exploding firecracker at his feet. As he backed toward the door escorted by two Assemblymen who playfully tickled his ribs, a chair was hurled at him. It missed its mark, went clattering to the corridor floor. Then and then only was the Assembly ready to pass Senator Kuser's bill...
...behind a long row of rolltop mahogany desks on the first floor of No. 23 Wall St., shut off by a glass partition from the banking floor and an area where clerks toil incessantly with calculating machines. By elevator they can go to the floor above where a long corridor decorated with large photographs of partners gives access to private offices where they can go to dictate to secretaries. (The Elder Morgan would tolerate no female stenographers but that day is long past.) Every morning the partners, including any visiting from Philadelphia, hold a meeting to discuss and plan their...
...pride until May when he impulsively resigned from the U. S. Peace Commission after President Wilson refused to give him an audience. An admirer of Lenin, he predicted that the Reds would oversweep all Europe. He denounced the Versailles Treaty as a breeder of war hates, flayed the Polish Corridor settlement, warned of an early end to Reparations. Said Bill Bullitt: "I am going to the Riviera, lie on the sand, kick my heels in the air and let the world go to hell...