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...rusty since La Guardia made up his mind to do away with that kind of a machine age has sprung once more into action. Every Bronz big-shot and Brooklyn saloon keeper who has a finger in the Tammany pie is licking his chops in anticipation of an early feast after a long famine...
This year's round-up will feature a formal dance in the Lowell House Dining Room, broken by a midnight feast in the Purtans' Dining Room. Lasting from 10 until 3 o'clock, the dance will offer a soft drink bar, and chairs and tables will be set up in the courtyard for guests...
...Lombardo the convention was to be a feast of glory and justification. For weeks he had warmed up his farewell address. (Favorite line: "I leave office a rich man-rich in the hatred of the bourgeoisie.") On the convention's opening day, he delivered it with gestures, eloquently declared that the Avila Camacho regime was only a "modification in details" of Cárdenas' program. Equally eloquent was the inference that Lombardo, noted for his political agility, was leaving himself free to jump left or right...
...with representatives of twelve newspaper publishers' associations. The subject was censorship; the meeting was a follow-up of Secretary Knox's "confidential" letter (TIME, Jan. 27) which in effect requested that publishers print no significant Navy news unless it was issued or approved by the Navy. Love feast rather than war council, the meeting consisted of polite queries from publishers, urbane answers from the Secretary of the Navy and William Knudsen, blandly disavowing any intent to enforce "a rigid news censorship...
...Brothers spoke from Hollywood and their usual lavish feast of superbly baked ham was mixed with reasonably straight brotherly sentiment. Lionel wanted to tell Ethel over the radio: "We brought a big red apple for you, but John drank it." The line was cut from the script. So with many heavy Lionelesque gasps and wheezes he told how Ethel had helped him into his first big part when "I burst like a chrysalis on Broadway and knocked them for a row of Chinese pagodas. . . . I've never been so good since.'' With a melancholy, boot-reaching sigh...