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...60th among 125 cadets. At 21 he wrote, in clumsy, inept calligraphy, a pathetic little self-portrait: "My strongest characteristic: gluttony-I never get enough to eat. My credo: self-respect-I believe in myself. My weak points: none. My favorite book: Momotaro [a heroic fairy tale]. My favorite dish: boiled millet and soup with dry leeks [a poor peasant food...
...American Activities. Few have been more vitriolic than goat-bearded William Dudley Pelley, leader of The Silvershirt Legion of America. Last June, one of the Committee's investigators, Robert B. Barker, investigated his nation-saving activities and reported back that Pelley was just the Committee's dish. With its sizzling frying pan all ready for Pelley, the Committee tossed out a line and hook to catch him. But Mr. Pelley dived for deeper water, and disappeared...
...Admiral, Surgeon General of the U. S. Navy-conferred on him by a grateful President. After nearly seven years of checking up on Mr. Roosevelt's health, Admiral Mclntire last week told the President he could let himself go. This meant that Mr. Roosevelt could have that second dish of ice cream he often craves...
Died. Ralph Hitz, 48, Viennese immigrant to the U. S. who floor-scrubbed, dish-washed, potato-peeled, super-sold his way into the presidency of the $22,000,000 Hotel New Yorker and National Hotel Management Co., Inc. (seven hotels); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Best-known of U. S. hotelmen, Ralph Hitz overwhelmed his customers with services, operated under the motto: "Give 'em value and you get volume." His employes' version: "We contact the hell...
...morning last November President Getulio Vargas of Brazil sat down as usual to a dish of mamau (a Brazilian fruit that looks like cantaloupe), unfolded a newspaper with an expectant smile. It was the second anniversary of Brazil's Estado Novo-the semi-Fascist State that President Vargas created in 1937-and he looked forward to a paean of headlines in Brazil's press...