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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Diplomat Grew's sporting proclivities serve him well in Tokyo. He is a baseball fiend; so are the Japanese. His faculty for golfing in dignity and black shorts necessarily appeals to a people to whom dignity is everything. His impressively good clothes, grey hair, dark mustache, lithe frame support a slightly British aura of raj, accompanied by a Yankee capacity for work. He drives his embassy staff seven hours a day (a frightful stint for the Foreign Service). Many an Ambassador lets his staff do the handwork. Joe Grew peck-types his own reports, producing documents highly respected...
Democrat Sam Hobbs of Selma, Ala.: "We may not be statesmen, but we have not a chance to be as good statesmen as we might be because of the incubus of work...
Mabel McFiggins bought $4 worth of orange stamps (in 25? denominations), good for $4 worth of any food she cared to buy at any of Rochester's 1,200 groceries. For every dollar which she spent for orange stamps, she also got 50? in blue stamps. These were premiums, given to her by the U. S. Government. They also could be "spent" at any grocery, but only for farm produce officially listed as surplus: butter, eggs, flour, cornmeal, prunes, dried beans, citrus fruits. Grocers who took Miss McFiggins' stamps, or wholesalers who accepted them as payment from retailers...
...Ever since I was elected alderman I have been deluged with requests for contributions from [religious and charitable] organizations who never before asked me for gifts Now I would like to post this question to the good people who are making these requests: How can an alderman satisfy them and yet remain honest? . . . With an alderman's salary what it is [$5,000], if he does make these contributions on any appreciable scale, he is almost literally forced into the 'racket...
...colleagues, good charitarians, chuckled, took no offense...