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Spain. Next day mild, dapper José Giral, Premier of the Spanish Republican Government in exile, appeared before the Council's subcommittee on Spain to warn that Franco had 1,590,000 soldiers. Earlier in the week the U.S. had reported that Spain's "armed forces have continued their overall trend of gradual reduction in size...
...tolled a quarter after three when dapper John Wilmot, Labor's Minister of Supply, rose in the House of Commons. Confidently, he announced that the hour for Britain's third-largest heavy industry had struck. Said he: "The position of the steel industry and its importance in the national economy necessitate a large measure of public ownership. . . . For [the transition] period I propose to establish a control board. . . ." He gave no further details. It was Labor's vaguest policy statement to date. It was also Labor's greatest blunder...
...exchange of correspondents in a broader way." For that, the editors gave him a big hand. Facile Ilya Ehrenburg, easily the star of the show, had his hosts goggle-eyed with admiration for the dexterous way he handled himself. Roundheaded General Galaktionov popped up for occasional slow, emphatic replies; dapper Author-Playwright Simonov sat in a smoldering haze of cigaret smoke and let his elders do the talking...
...Front. Jolly, dapper Sir Stewart, 48, has kept an eye on Britain's eye troubles since he matriculated at St. Andrews University in 1915. He won high favor with Downing Street circles in 1932 when he saved Fellow Scotsman Ramsay MacDonald from blindness, with two delicate operations on his glaucoma-affected eyes. In 1934, he performed the operation which staved off blindness for the King of Siam...
...dapper Sportsman Fred Weiszmann intended to play it safe. Until he learned whether the hitherto apathetic U.S. public would take to soccer, he would stay on as assistant headwaiter at Chicago's popular Wrigley Building restaurant...