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With his white-haired wife, Davis lives in a small apartment filled with bulging bookcases, a big typewriter desk, a battered, slipcovered easy chair. For relaxation he still plays bridge, with Russian Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff, Publisher Eugene Meyer of the Washington Post, Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones. (Meyer and Jones, bitter enemies, are never in the same foursome...
...safer than margin buying by unsophisticated bargain hunters-though smart-money margin buyers often tend to stabilize the market. But traditionally the cash buyer is the same little fellow who would rather have 100 bad shares at 2 than four good ones at 50. And brokers have an old maxim: the time to sell is when the elevator man starts...
...apply the principle of self-determination to the disputed areas, plebiscites to be taken to ascertain their loyalties. But the fundamental solution of the problem can be secured not merely through frontier rectifications; Russia must be given security from aggression by an establishment of that collective security for which Maxim Litvinov waged a fruitless battle throughout the Thirties. In 1919, Clemenceau and Foch gave up their demands to German territory for an Anglo-American promise to institute an effective system for main-taining peace; that promise was not kept. At the end of World War II, Russia may be expected...
From a cozy game of bridge up stood Russian Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff, Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones, ex-U.S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, Bridgeplayer Ely Culbertson. Their conditions, reported later by Culbertson: Litvinoff, $32 richer; Culbertson, $8 richer; Davies, $2 richer; the Secretary of Commerce (whose best game is poker), somewhat poorer...
...with the help of three dress rehearsals that lasted most of three nights, the show was in pretty good shape for its' swish Washington premiere. The first-night audience, which included Eleanor Roosevelt, the Maxim Litvinoffs, the Harry Hopkinses, was enthusiastic if occasionally irreverent : when Actress Cornell tossed herself too quiveringly into her lover's arms, the house roared with laughter. Afterwards the bigwigs trooped backstage. Amid his congratulations, Harry Hopkins voiced a complaint: "No man would say good-by to the woman he loves wearing heavy leather gauntlets...