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...Congress presidency-with Saint Gandhi's blessing-was fiery young Subhas Chander Bose, a Bengal leader with a long record of terrorist activities. Considered at first a weakling in politics, President Bose soon began to kick at the Gandhi traces. He forced Millionaire Jamnalal Bajaj, good friend of Gandhi, to resign as Congress treasurer for "reasons of health." He curried to the masses by charging that Indian Congress officials had jailed trade unionists, used the British police to shoot strikers, limited civil liberties. Most serious charge of all, however, was that Gandhi was leading Congress to accept the federation...
...handsome, smoothspoken and astute Roman Catholic prelate is Most Rev. James Hugh Ryan, Bishop for the past three years of Omaha, Neb., and onetime (1928-35) Rector of the Catholic University of America (Washington, D. C.). As head of the nation's only pontifical university, Bishop Ryan was friend to many a secular bigwig in Washington, including Franklin D. Roosevelt. Last December the Bishop, with his good friend Rev. Dr. Maurice S. Sheehy, head of the University's religious education department, called upon President Roosevelt at the White House. Ensued some joking about a mutual interest...
Thomas Gardiner ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran of the White House Janizariat went to Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore), had his appendix removed. A friend who keeps up with doings in New Zealand (see p. 72) sent him one dozen fertile hens' eggs to take into bed with him and hatch out*-during his forced absence from plots & plans in Washington...
...useful pal, Ocean-Traveler Al was happy to do services like these. But because Elma Lauer's German maid, Rosa Weber, didn't like what Elma and friends said about Herr Hitler, she reportedly mentioned the duty-free frocks to customs officials. Indicted as smugglers. Burns, Mrs. Lauer and Chapereau pleaded guilty, Jack Benny, another friend, did not. Last week in Manhattan, when a Federal judge said, "a year and a day in prison," George ("Nat") Burns turned paler than a radio gag. But the judge proceeded: "I shall suspend execution of sentence during good behavior." Upshot...
...wartime private secretary, John G. Nicolay. An adept in handling cranks and job-hunters, a shrewd political observer, personable, sympathetic, young Hay quickly rose in Lincoln's esteem, went everywhere in wartime Washington, missed little. He shared a room in the White House with his good friend Nicolay, held many a nightshirt conversation with the "Ancient," or the "Tycoon," as he nicknamed Lincoln...