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In the House, Alabama's hollow-cheeked, hard-fisted George Huddleston got a howling ovation when, pleading for "regulation" instead of "vengeance," he ripped into both combatants. "I deplore these outside influences," barked Democrat Huddleston. ". . . Before we had the first hearing on this bill the chairman of our committee...
Dick Powell plays with charm and appeal. He is supported by winsome Gloria Stuart, who seems to grow more beautiful in each succeeding picture. Adolphe Menjou takes the part of the eccentric producer who displays more loquaciousness than money to Grant Mitchell, the irate manager of the ultra fashionable Wentworth...
Day after day in the Diet both lean, rheumatic War Minister General Senjuro Hayashi and burly, big-fisted Navy Minister Mineo Osumi hammered away at the thesis that no matter what happens, no matter how remote the danger of war, Japanese Deputies must vote nearly half of the Empire'...
In the glaring spade-calling of such passages the Six-Year Plan may offend the squeamish for whom two-fisted Boss Calles cares nothing. In the words of General Cárdenas, the Plan lays down "a comprehensive program of action for 1) return of land to the villagers; 2...
Grew prestige was not exactly of the kind to impress two-fisted President T. R. Roosevelt. Wires from Boston were pulled in vain. Joseph's efforts to be sent with Minister Edwin Morgan to Korea, then the hot spot Japan is today, landed him as a consular clerk in Cairo...