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Fred M. Carter, vice president of National Lead Co., was elected president succeeding forthright Edward Joel Cornish who became board chairman...
...Whitsitt also rebelled and was deemed a heretic. Student Newton spent one more year as a Baptist, then became an independent. In 1916 he was called to the famed City Temple ("Cathedral of Non-Conformity") in London. In three years he went through 28 air raids, preached many a forthright liberal sermon, once conducted a funeral for 500 British soldiers...
First of all, there is a capable chorus, the "gentlemen of Japan," forthright in song, mincing in pantomime, hair-trigger with the fan. Then there are three most excellent characterizations: the Lord High Executioner, the Lord High Everything Else, and the Mikado. Mr. William Danforth, as the Mikado, is a player most perfectly in the Gilbertian tradition. His devastating Oriental grin stretches permanently from ear to ear; he rocks with noiseless merriment as Ko-Ko tells of the deadly snickersnee; he recites the list of hand-tailored punishments aimiably through his teeth, till suddenly his blood-curdling laugh, like Mephistopheles...
...Spain's forthright Don Salvador de Madariaga created a sensation in the pussyfooting Council by his description of the creation of Manchukuo. "which I will call quite plainly invasion of Manchuria!" Playing safe, the Council then delayed discussion of the Lytton Report to Nov. 14, which Japan's representative seemed to consider only a partial victory...
...Labor Statistics. Technically, Commissioner Stewart was retired for age under the new Economy Law after the White House failed to include him in its list of overage employes whose professional services were indispensable to the Administration. But many a Washington observer thought there was another reason for dropping this forthright official who had served his Government continuously for 45 years...