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...soothing speech in 500-word blocks to two secretaries in relays.* That afternoon, while 4,000 people jammed every balcony and corridor, Senior Oracle Winston Churchill gave the young rebels a few answers, then cannily diverted their attention to subjects on which they could happily agree. Clutching his coat lapel with one hand and stabbing the air with the other, he strode into his 6,000-word speech. First, to a tremendous ovation, he told them he would continue in party leadership "as long as I have the necessary strength and energy and have your confidence...
...those years the city grew up. Up climbed the buildings. Up climbed industry, shipping, finances, while "Sunny Jim" ran things with a glad hand. When "Sunny Jim" left to become governor, he passed the mayoralty to Florist Angelo Rossi, who sailed into office with a carnation in his lapel...
Irrepressible House of Commons Leader Herbert Morrison, wearing an enormous pink rose in bis lapel, best expressed the jubilant, confident mood of the conference. His somber warnings of a future U.S. business slump that might drag the world into depression did not keep him from enjoying the social whirl. He danced the Scottish reel with whoops and jigs, nursed a couple of small Scotches through evenings of gay chatter. "A regular scalawag is Herbert," grinned one delegate...
...have ever seen." Then, her face still puffy from mourning, she sat easily behind her husband's desk and issued quiet, businesslike orders to the gangmen, who called her "Neisan"-Elder Sister. While her chief henchman, faultlessly attired in a morning coat with a red carnation in his lapel, sat approvingly by her side, Mrs. Matsuda proclaimed: "I intend to carry out my husband's ideas though it may entail considerable danger to my person and some resistance from among my henchmen...
Harold E. Stassen, three-term governor of Minnesota, now wearing a gold duck in his lapel after three years as a Commander in the Navy, has, in three days in Cambridge, walked softly and talked gently to at least 2000 undergraduates, graduates, faculty members, and newspapermen...