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...speaker of the House. Once the hubbub grew so loud that Mr. Speaker regained control only by bellowing: "It's quite impossible for me to know what anyone is saying." To Winston Churchill he said: "We are getting very excited . . . Perhaps that is exactly what the Right Honorable gentleman likes to see." Brown weathered the rowdy week, then collapsed from exhaustion, sent word he would be absent until after Easter. Parliament's catering staff, messengers and policemen, also worn to a frazzle, sent a deputation to Chuter Ede, leader of the House. They complained that they got only...
...parade of ice cream flavors appearing every week still has him baffled. Some of those on the receiving end of this plethora are convinced that the dining hall department is using them as a testing ground for strange new experiments. Others assert that an old eccentric gentleman left an endowment to provide all future students with his favorite ice creams--peanut brittle, cherry cocoanut, and macaroon...
When the Speaker of the House recognizes the honorable gentleman from Georgia, chairman of the Committee on the Armed Services" one day this week, a new draft Act will be just a month away. The gentleman from Georgia, Carl Vinson, will bring in HR 2811, the House version of the new draft bill, which he expects to be passed before spring recess next week. But it should take another two or three weeks for Senate and House conference committees to clear up differences between the Senate bill and House 2811, and for the two legislative branches to take their final...
Both syndicates have heavy interests, during the winter season, in Miami. Apparently, said the committee, "there is a gentleman's agreement . . . not to infringe on the activities of each other." The "adhesive" which holds the two syndicates together, the committee suggested, seriously if a little tentatively, is the Mafia. the Sicilian secret society specializing in bootlegging, narcotic smuggling and "Black Hand" extortion. Presiding over both syndicates as an arbitrator by remote control, said the committee, is Mafia Chief Charles ("Lucky"') Luciano in Italy...
...individuals, charging that they had conspired to hold him up to "public scorn and ridicule" and scare away potential sponsors for his radio program. It was Pearson's third suit against Pegler. He withdrew the first (for $25,-ooo) in 1946 after he and Pegler had made a gentleman's agreement to stop calling each other names. Still pending is a second (for $250,000), filed last year after Pegler stopped being a gentleman and called Pearson a "lying blackguard...