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Waterfront riffraff and cheap gangsters of all nations, plus open and tawdry vice, are typical of famed Marseille, but so too is the soaring, indomitable spirit of its sunny French citizens. The true Marseillais is bold, humorous, boastful and greathearted. Last week stout, jovial, bearded Louis Frichet, one of the most popular citizens of jostling, neighborly Marseille, became the hero of a holocaust which made news the world around...
This supercharged description of an air ride over the Sierras led off an address before a section of the Eighth National Eucharistic Congress in New Orleans last week. The speaker: strapping, jovial Joseph Vincent Connolly, general manager of all Hearst newspapers. His subject: "The Press and the Church." Glowing with indignation against the "diabolical paganism behind Nazi and Communist persecutions," he reminded Catholics that Jesus was a Jew and "our beloved Mother Mary" a Jewess, offered a slogan on which the Church and the Hearst press might well agree: "The time to fight in America is NOW." Joe Connolly...
...Senate, "the U. S.'s most exclusive club," Clubman Bulkley, jovial, substantial, friendly, fits easily and well. But Senator Bulkley has not fulfilled his youthful Congressional promise. His voting record, which has hopped back & forth over the New Deal fence, can be classified as either independent or puzzling. He has voted against such New Deal measures as gold devaluation, NIRA, the Black 30-Hour-Week Bill, TVA, AAA (both 1935 and 1938), Soil Conservation, the Guffey Coal Act, Wages & Hours. But he stood with the New Deal on both the bills Franklin Roosevelt chose to regard as tests...
Japan's Ambassador to the U. S. since 1934 has been 51-year-old Hiroshi Saito, a jovial, waspy little man who has ingratiating ways with Washington correspondents, plays poker with White House Secretary Marvin Mclntyre and prides himself on his U. S. slang. Diplomat Saito approves the establishment of a Japanese-controlled China, but is generally believed to dislike the smashing tactics the army is using to achieve it. His unpalatable task since the China war started has been to square aggressive Japan with a U. S. sympathetic to China. Dashing about making polite apologies and good-will...
...help you," joked jovial James M. Curley when a local pressure group including three University students and two from Radcliffe told him the colleges they attended...