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...large, heavyset, clean-shaven, with big hands and feet, a thick neck. His nickname ("Iron Man") derives from his physique and stamina on the stump. In the Senate he shuns frock-coats, fancies business suits of a reddish-brown worsted. In debate he is a ready speaker with a strong clear voice. When he rises at his desk, he throws out his chest and stiffens his shoulders like a fighter going into action. His formal speeches, meaty with facts, are carefully prepared in advance. His mind and tongue both move slowly. Personally pleasant, he has a serious temperament that bars...
...Negro policemen and a dozen frock-coated ushers, some 4,000 U. S. Negroes marched briskly into St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan one day last week. At the head were the Knights of St. John, perspiring in gay full dress and cocked hats with long white feathers. St. Benedict's Commandery followed, with its Ladies' Auxiliary in blue-sashed white dresses; then small pickaninnies, the white-veiled Children of Mary, led by Negro nuns; at the end, many a Negro member of the Holy Name and St. Vincent de Paul societies. The 4,000 Negroes were...
Fortnight ago a solemn, resplendent group of bishops, generals, frock-coated cabinet ministers and economists assembled at Santiago's Presidential Palace to watch Provisional President Carlos Davila sign something. The world learned only last week what it was that he signed: Chile's long discussed Emergency Plan by which the Davila Government means to embark on a program of "sane" state Socialism. Nothing could insult President Davila more than to call the plan hastily conceived. An editor who dubbed it "Chile's Five-Minute Plan" was promptly flung into jail last week...
...buff-colored wooden Imperial Palace. The Diet and House of Peers meet at present in a low, dingy frame building, which "looks like an orphan asylum," according to Japanese correspondents. To this Imperial orphanage went the peers of Japan last week, some in grey silk kimonos, more in frock coats and high button shoes, to sit on stiff benches behind wooden desks and listen to a speech actually addressed to the entire world: an explanation by Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida of his country's foreign policy. Most cautiously, most meticulously was the speech prepared...
...Shelly, 76, swung on to his horse, fixed a shiny oldtime stovepipe hat on his head, put a perky cigar in his mouth, and posed for a moment. Except for frock coat and saddle medicine bags, that was the way he rode into Mulvane 52 years ago, a year after its founding. Laughed he last week: "I had 45? in my pocket then." Now he has a big house in Mulvane, a wife and four children (the son is Dr. Hargus Gerard Shelly, 51, of Wichita), and a practice which still requires night calls...