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Deputy Premier Mihai Antonescu (no kin to Premier Ion) might be one possibility; two others: Juliu Maniu, president of the National Peasant Party, and Constantin Bratianu, president of the National Liberal Party. Both Maniu and Bratianu recently wrote well-advertised letters to Premier Antonescu, denouncing the "anti-British and anti-American character you have given to the war," demanding peace before the war reaches Rumania's frontiers...
...kin to New York's Joseph, Washington's "Cissie...
...Work Goes On. Most likely successor to the retiring Chief Justice is his able subordinate and close friend, mustached French-Canadian Justice Thibaudeau Rinfret (rhymes with kin-fret) because of Canada's custom of alternating top judicial appointments between the two language groups and major religions. French and Catholic, balding Justice Rinfret, like his colleague, believes that the law is not an "affair of literal precepts but a social instrument...
...Lepke was safely locked up in Manhattan's Federal House of Detention on a 14-year dope-peddling sentence. Last week he was still there, alive & well. Still alive also were two Lepke triggermen named Capone (no kin to Al) and Weiss, who were scheduled to die with him. Waiting for Lepke, his henchmen have languished in Sing Sing's death house since December...
...rise of Senator Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler. Arbitrary with his patronage, he antagonized many a ward heeler, earned the nickname of "The Old Bear." No one knew why he decided to run for Congress just when the Democratic ship was rocking in Kentucky. But retiring Governor Keen Johnson (no kin to Patriarch Ben) obligingly arranged for Talbott to be nominated. At the polls Talbott was exposed to "bullet votes" from disgruntled party hacks and from citizens who resented his highhandedness...