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This week, after a ticker-tape welcome on lower Broadway and an honorary degree from Columbia University, the debonair salesman of South American democracy embarked on a rugged program of visits. After New York, González planned to see Philadelphia, the TVA, Texas' oilfields and New Orleans...
...energetic Schuley, it was a characteristically busy week. Besides the Hermod's arrival, Reporter Schulenburg covered a dozen stories with "local angles," e.g., the Senate debate on dismantling German plants, and went to six parties and several private dinners. A debonair addition to the capital's diplomatic and social salons but no mere cocktail correspondent, Schuley has filed 200 stories to D.P.A. since he landed in New York five months...
Beside the American stood his British assistant, grey-haired, once debonair Edgar Sanders; a Hungarian barmaid (listed as "Baroness" to give her the proper upper-class air), Edina Dory, who had worked as an I.T. & T. switchboard operator; a Hungarian official of I.T. & T., Imre Geiger; and three more Hungarians accused of complicity in the "spy ring...
...debonair, Freudianized study of the Salem witch trials, Marion L. Starkey analyzes the maidenly affliction as hysteria. She sees the girls as partly possessed and partly calculating, weighed down by the rigors of Calvinism, depressed by the lack of an outlet for their high spirits, and finding in their seizures a way both to draw attention to themselves and to wreak an incredibly malicious revenge on the adult world...
Chicago's old Boss Ed Kelly was there, talking to Jersey City's debonair old Boss Frank Hague, who wore a straw boater and flourished a cane. With other Democratic National Committee members, they had gathered in Washington's Mayflower...