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...hatch all this out of the innocuous King's Speech, the technical maneuver was employed of having that cherub-faced Tory fire-eater Mr. Winston (''Winnie") Churchill propose an amendment in language which in fact was a polemic. Clarioned "Winnie" Churchill: "The great new fact that is riveting the attention of every country in Europe and the world is that Germany is rearming!" He estimated that within a year the military air force of the Fatherland-which is forbidden to have any such air force by the Treaty of Versailles-would equal Britain...
...banker on the side, he is married, has two children, will get twice as much ($40,500) in his new job as in his old. Negro Cook Humphrey Bowling of "No. 99," the president's private car, rates him thus: "A good man, but a poor eater...
...fire-eater in Mississippi may be gentled by one contact with the urbane beneficence of Franklin Roosevelt. Two months ago Theodore Bilbo won the right in Mississippi's Democratic primary to succeed Senator Stephens by promising to "out-Huey Huey Long." Last week The Man Bilbo called at the White House, showed himself a turnquote. On emerging he buttonholed newshawks and declared: "I want you boys to do a favor. Correct the impression that Bilbo is coming here as a ... hellraiser. He is 100% Democratic. I am coming to Washington to stand by the party, the platform and the President...
...carry on the first U. S. Hofbrau. In his dark-paneled restaurant on 30th Street, Manhattan, he would tell proudly of the days when he had persuaded Theodore Roosevelt to eat pigs' feet and calf's head, when he had warned President Taft, a great steak-eater, against digging his grave with his teeth. In his palmy days August Janssen owned 20 Hofbraus. He spent $1,000,000 advertising JANSSEN WANTS TO SEE YOU.* But in 1921 Prohibition was withering the Hofbrau trade. And more distressing to August Janssen was his son Werner, a senior at Dartmouth. Father...
...writers. Yaleman (1919) who escaped the "Yale literary renaissance" but not the War, he joined the U. S. literary colony in Paris after the Armistice, stuck it out for five years. In Paris he knew "everybody," contributed to such magazines as Broom, transition, Gargoyle, wrote a Dada novel, The Eater of Darkness. Friend of Gertrude Stein's (who described him as "the one young man who has an individual rhythm, his words made a sound to the eyes, most people's do not") he introduced Ernest Hemingway to her. Back in the U. S., he wrote...