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...Italy went on the warpath for an Ethiopian Empire, he signed up and went to East Africa, busy with "ideas for Army headgear of celluloid and air-cooled aluminum to mitigate the Ethiopian desert." On foreign policy he has been no less articulate. Once, when England was in mild disfavor, he clarioned: "Down with roast beef and pudding in England!" Later, when Britain was temporarily being courted, "The English," he stated, "are a wonderful nation." Another time, when the British were being reviled for sanctions, he issued "A Futurist Manifesto to Liberate Ourselves From English Habits . . . tea-drinking, snobbery, golfing...
Wrote Fred: "no malice was intended and i am sorry to have incurred the disfavor of the gentlemen. . . . i have considered committing harikari on the two points recently gained by bethlehem steel. i have also thought about calling a conference, since a conference is a gathering of important people who, singly, can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done, both ideas were abandoned in favor of this letter...
...hostile legislators and organized labor and named William Morris Leiserson, 56, Chairman of the National Railroad Mediation Board, to the National Labor Relations Board succeeding Donald Wakefield Smith of Pennsylvania, a recess appointee who is persons non grata with the powerful American Federation of Labor and is in disfavor with a large segment of Congress...
...Franchot Tone met at Manhattan's swank "21," embraced tearfully, dined together, later danced fervidly together at a night club. Next morning Judge Benjamin Scheinman denied Actress Crawford's deposition charging Husband Tone with "extreme cruelty." Said the judge: "The courts in this State look with disfavor on mail-order divorces...
Those who look with disfavor on the increase demanded by the A. F. of I. point to the permanence and stability of University employ, and to superior working conditions. The University saves jobs for waitresses intending to return after the summer recess...