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...took a seat at the foot of the table. Behind him, under an ornate gold-leaf mirror, sat another staunch protectionist, Illinois' Republican Representative Noah Mason, his cherub cheeks aglow with excitement. Cried Reed: "I formed my opinion about low tariffs as an infant during the Administration of Grover Cleveland. Yes, I formed my opinions when, gentlemen"-Reed paused to glare around the table-"when, gentlemen, I walked miles and miles to sell a dozen eggs for 10?." His fist crashed down on the table, setting the chandelier above him to tinkling briskly. Illinois' Noah Mason jumped...
...Persian rug. A Kansan* who entered the Foreign Service in 1925, he served at four Mediterranean and Balkan posts before returning to Washington as assistant chief of protocol. In 1937 Protocol Expert Holmes resigned to become vice president of the New York World's Fair and, in effect, Grover Whalen's secretary of state...
...with long, lonely reaches and stupendous, high-country scenery, proud, self-assured and close to its pioneer beginnings. A geographic unit, hemmed by natural barriers, it once almost became a state (as big as all New England, New York, Delaware and Maryland) called Lincoln. Congress approved in 1886, but Grover Cleveland pocket-vetoed the bill on the advice of his politically potent First Assistant Postmaster General Adlai Stevenson, who feared that south Idaho, if left to itself, would become a Mormon commonwealth...
Noting a man with soul-piercing eyes board the same plane with him in North Carolina, the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser's Editor Grover Hall Jr. invited his fellow passenger to share a seat. Hall's recollections of this chance encounter with Roman Catholic Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, 59, provided Advertiser readers with an unusual portrait: "As the plane revved up for the takeoff, the Bishop crossed himself . . . The editor observed the Bishop's supplication with satisfaction, considering that the plea for the safety of the ship's company was in uncommonly eloquent and influential hands . . . Airborne...
Sentimental Journey. In Pasadena, Calif., suing each other for divorce, Grover T. Kelley and wife Daisy Mae disagreed on 1) the date of their marriage, 2) the place of their marriage, 3) the date of their separation, 4) the year and make of their automobile...