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North Carolina's long, lantern-jawed Josiah ("Holy Joe") Bailey, 71, an anti-New Deal Senator who once edited a Bible magazine, still tries to be forgiving. Last week Harold Ickes sorely tried Joe Bailey's patience by loosening a characteristic blast against a Bailey Senate amendment. Up rose the Senator for a 6,800-word reply. Its burden...
Give With Japanese Lantern...
...made the official presentation at a meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs in Cambridge on September 17, 1936. Part of the ceremonies commemorating the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of the College, the donation was made in conjunction, strangely enough, with the gift of a Japanese lantern from the Nipponese alumni...
...charge of demobilization plans is 51-year-old Brigadier General William F. Tompkins, a soft-voiced, lantern-jawed Virginian who in 29 years has had a crack at just about every job there is in a military career, including flood control. He has been what the Army calls a "farmed-out" officer all his life. He has three sons in the services: one a major in the engineers, one a pursuit pilot in England, the third a marine in training...
...eased himself into the seat. The car clicked into high gear, picked up speed. Suddenly the car glided to a stop; a red lantern waved urgently...