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...when the Bolivians sought a $10,000,000 loan, the U.S. State Department turned them down. Reason: Bolivia expropriated $17,000,000 Standard Oil (N.J.) properties in 1937, and has not yet indemnified Standard. The textbook justice of the State Department's stand did not impress the Bolivians. When their Government asked its Senate for authority to negotiate with Standard, the only result was a wave of anti-U.S. sentiment that still boils in the streets...
...picked Harvard," he says, "because I liked to study." Passing up neighboring Yale, Sully arrived in Cambridge in 1924, and paid his first visit to Boston in the fall of the same year, when the Old Howard chorus was still in its prime. The Athenaeum did not impress him, however; he still complains that the strip-tease act is always the same. "There is nothing new under the veil," he recently told a class as he tied on his philosophical beard...
...haughty and aloof; but they usually think very highly of themselves, are always wholly callous to the distress they cause others. To the knowing psychiatrist, their eloquent admissions of error and promises to reform are catchwords which have no meaning to the patient but which he has learned will impress others...
...executives who wish to impress visitors with a clean desk, Manhattan's Duplex Desk Co. designed a flat desk with an extra top which can be drawn over the usual litter at a moment's notice...
Once you start listening to Waller's records, you can't get enough, so I'd like to suggest several which impress me as being representative of Fats at his best. Sweet and Slow (1934 vintage), Big Chief De Sota and It's A Sin To Tell A Lie (You can imagine what Fats does to the latter), My Mommie Sent Me to the Store, and finally Send Me Jackson. (The last two have exceptional Cedric choruses...