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...Huff-Puff Parable. At Leopoldville, Dr. Mabie joined an assemblage of 200-odd delegates (American, British, Scandinavian, French, Belgian, Portuguese, Swiss and native) sweltering in a cluster of 22 tar-papered U.S. Army hospital buildings. In Babel-like confusion, conferees struggled with Christian heroism to meet a program of four daily sessions, crammed with as many as 19 papers at a single session...
...capitalist plot to form an anti-Soviet western bloc. When a reporter for Moscow's Tass News Agency asked Léon Blum whether he really wanted to resurrect the Second International, Blum replied he did not understand the question. The Tassman rushed from the room, in a huff, slamming the door...
Smith wanted the pottery industry nationalized and expanded. Sir Stafford Cripps refused, ordered Britons to eat off white (austerity) dinnerware and export all fancy ware. In a huff, Smith resigned his post...
...speculated on whether or when the world's biggest airplane would ever fly. Last week speculation turned to skepticism. Reason: Charles W. Perelle, the crack production man who had been hired to complete Howard Hughes' 212-ton, 750-passenger flying boat, quit his job in a huff...
...cynical Government had created a "vigilance board," purportedly to track down Nazi agents, liquidate the country's powerful Axis firms. But last week the board's general secretary, Dr. Carlos A. Adrogue, resigning in a huff, charged that Foreign Minister Juan Isaac Cooke and other high officials were anxious to hinder, not help, any move to oust the Nazis...