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...show had cost only one-third ($50,000) of what it cost in 1940. After six days & nights of uneventful horse-trading in a small, ovenlike buff and gilt hotel ballroom, the Resolutions Committee had patched together a 1944 G.O.P. platform-no more ambiguous and no more forthright than most-which neither offended nor excited the 1,057 delegates. For the first time in G.O.P. convention history, no one bothered to submit a minority platform report or to offer suggestions from the floor...
...Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces, perhaps from a strategy conference in London. In London the iron railings in front of the American Embassy are getting a fresh coat of paint and gold trimmings, fancywork denied even to Buckingham Palace since 1939. Said Painter Joby Plumb: "This 'ere gilt paint, it's worth houses. Ain't seen none like this for years...
...supreme moment came in Parliament's gilt-crested Royal Gallery last fortnight, when King addressed members of the Houses of Lords and Commons. He had worked and reworked his speech with the little pencil stub he habitually uses. The address was, for him, an unusually succinct statement of his view that each Dominion must be free to go its own way within a loose Commonwealth framework. But it was no orator's triumph; Mackenzie King's drone had its usual soporific effect on his audience...
...here, gentlemen, is a golden opportunity. The staff of the Navy Supply Yearbook is offering one fat, gilt-edged copy of that publication, valued at an astronomical figure, but selling, at a sacrifice, for $5, to the one among you who can suggest an acceptance title befitting of such an edition at its approaching christening...
Outside the crimson-hung windows streamed the traditional Inauguration Day rain. Inside the crystal-and-gilt East Room streamed 200 friends, relatives and distinguished guests. Franklin Roosevelt's twelfth year as President had begun...