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Unfortunately Brother Tom is decidedly persona non grata to Victor Jerome Shankey, rival Democrat. Consequently Brother Tom faced not only a Republican opponent but also "Vic" Shankey running as an independent. On election day Brother Jim Farley lent assistance on the spot. As he went from polling place to polling place, mopping his bald dome in the unseasonable November heat, telegrams dated New York City and signed with his name were being delivered to worthy Haverstraw Democrats even as he shook hands with them. Brother Jim was "particularly anxious" to see the local Democratic candidate for the State Assembly elected...
...right and he should know because he was his brother. Then another Robert F. Key turned up who claimed he was a cousin of U. C. L. A.'s Key but that that Key was not "Ted" but "Shorty," and he should know because he had lent him his high-school credentials so he could get into U. C. L. A. After a week of this kind of nonsense, U. C. L. A.'s Key suddenly came out of hiding and confessed what nearly everybody else at U. C. L. A. except Dean Miller had known...
...gallery, subdivided for the occasion into three formal rooms, it presented 58 pictures and 60 statues which comprised the most important exhibition of 18th Century French art the U. S. has ever seen. In France and the U. S. 44 collections ranging from the Louvre's (which lent ten exhibits) to a Kansas City art museum's were raided to make the Metropolitan show possible. Such private collectors as the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, the Morgans, the Mellons, the Baches also contributed. Thirty million dollars was a conservative estimate of the show's total value. Gaping gallery-goers...
...just one huge slice of cake. On the fighting side, Japan had scant trouble taking Germany's Chinese port of Kiao-chiao and Pacific islands, supplied some destroyers for troop convoys in the Mediterranean. Japan's total War dead: 300 men, mostly from illness. In money, Japan lent her Allies only 618,000.000 yen ($308,000.000). Britain repaid her share of this in 1919 to Japan out of monies borrowed from the U. S. The rest has since been largely repaid...
Paralleling Jerphanion's story is that of Mionnet, a shrewd young priest who is sent to the provinces to prevent a scandal in the Church. An aging Bishop has foolishly lent his prestige to a shady business deal, and Mionnet, authorized to settle the question, makes friends with the Bishop's enemies, conducts himself with circumspection and wit until his landlady's daughter proves a sufficient attraction to make him break his priestly vows. Occasional chapters, inserted between these two major developments, carry forward the stories of Gurau, the deputy, who breaks with his mistress, and Jallez...