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...Churchill cried: "If such a step had been taken by the U.S. before the last war, it would have stopped it." But the U.S.'s bluntness almost gave the Foreign Office heart failure. Said one old Whitehall hand wistfully: "When I think how many millions we in our heyday spread around the world-quietly and discreetly." Said the News Chronicle: "Mr. Truman has given . . . the impression that he has sent the Yankee terriers scuttling down the streets of Athens and Ankara with a bright red can tied to their tails, barking a shrill and slightly hysterical message of salvation...
...heyday of the firm passed with the 19th Century. Gradually it curtailed its underwriting ventures, concentrated more & more on counseling the owners of large stock-&-bond portfolios. Finally the signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt* on the Banking Act of 1933 forced Roosevelt & Son to give up underwriting and securities dealing altogether...
...some way which Pascal could not quite fathom, the bohemian tradition was being betrayed. It was a tradition epitomized, in the Left Bank's 19th Century heyday, by Author Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, who used to lead a live lobster around on a leash. "He does not bark," Barbey solemnly explained, "and he has the wisdom...
Died. Daniel Florence ("Judge Dan") Cohalan, 79, Tammany Hall's longtime political strategist and onetime Grand Sachem, chief adviser to Bosses Charles F. Murphy and John F. Curry in the heyday of brass-spittoon politics, noisy spokesman of New York City's Irish, former Justice of the State Supreme Court (1911-24); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
...large, complicated, enclosed courts, with pear-shaped racquets and complex rules), revolutionized classic court style with his smashing drives ("When I get a fair sight of the ball, I hit it, and I hit it damned hard"). Tom Pettitt made both court-tennis history and legend, in his heyday was reputed to have defeated many an opponent while using a bottle instead of a racquet. In 1885 he won the world's championship, successfully defended his title until he resigned in 1890, for 66 years served the famed Newport Casino as superintendent and grand panjandrum of tennis courts...