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...professional politicians in 1905 by pushing a novel measure through his legislature. All Wisconsin delegates to future national conventions of either party, said Fighting Bob's first-of-a-kind law, must be picked by primary elections, not by state party conventions as was then the U.S.-wide custom...
...Lords. In England, meanwhile, Elizabeth, expecting her third child imminently, was the subject of a spate of delicious prattle. It seems that lightweight Novelist Barbara (Love Is the Enemy) Cartland had visited the exclusive Mayfair beauty salon of Mrs. Elizabeth Forsythe, who also enjoys the Queen's custom. Barbara told a group of housewives "in confidence" (during a lecture entitled "You Can Be Beautiful") what Mrs. Forsythe had told her: "The Queen is having a special facial just before her new baby is born, and will have one directly afterwards." It took all of 24 hours for this tiding...
...they quickly wore out their welcome with the government in Bangkok. Clustered along the northeastern frontier, which borders on Laos, in tight little communities of their own, the refugees clung fiercely to their own language, built their houses on the ground instead of on stilts as is the Thai custom, and kept their ears glued to the voice from home-Hanoi radio, with its tireless Communist propaganda. Soon Ho Chi Minh's agents from North Viet Nam organized the refugees by means of a slickly efficient "invisible government," which controlled education among the Vietnamese, operated secret courts and even...
Belgian officials were hard pressed to stop the fighting. For one thing, they were already busy with another kind of savagery among the nearby Bushongo tribesmen. Now that there was talk of independence, the Bushongos were reviving the forbidden ritual custom of tschipapa, or trial by poison. Tschipapa, the traditional Bushongo method of dealing with witches, is a deadly kind of liquid roulette in which entire villages line up to drink from cups carefully arranged to bring death to those infected with evil spirits...
...went to Shanghai, took over the tiny insurance department of a Shanghai bank, converted it into an independent firm -American Asiatic Underwriters - and be came agent for a dozen U.S. insurance companies, including Fireman's Fund, Continental and Great American. He violated the custom of the European colony by giving responsible jobs to Chinese, thus opened up the Chinese community to his salesmen. His Asian pool expanded so rapidly that in 1926 Starr returned to New York and created the American International Underwriters Corp. to centralize reporting for his Shanghai companies and to develop insurance...