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...this country the plan would calm the populace considerably. Take John L. Lewis, for instance. . . . How easy it would be, if we had a king, to knight Lewis. . . . Sir Jonathan Llewellyn Lewisse of Coalhod-on-Cumberland. Isn't it magic? . . . Not a coal miner will listen to him. [Or] a businessman that got obstreperous. . . . You can see him now: Lord Henry Fordson, Earl of V-8-on-Highway...
...jovial Major General Patrick Jay Hurley, who has been coal miner, cowboy, mule skinner, lawyer to the Choctaws, buck private and presidential envoy extraordinary, began his newest job: U.S. Ambassador to China. His letters of credence had not arrived from Washington, but Chungking waved aside such formalities. In the American Embassy Pat Hurley held his first press conference, told reporters how he had taken part in parleys between Chiang Kai-shek's Government and the Chinese Communists. It was a strangely unself-conscious tale...
Lady Oakes, svelte, greying, Australian-born widow of multimillionaire Miner Sir Harry Oakes, appeared socially (at the opera in Philadelphia) for the first time since her husband was found murdered in July 1943. She pronounced Philadelphians "good, sound, solid people," planned to depart soon for her first journey to the Bahamas since her son-in-law, Alfred de Marigny, was acquitted of the unsolved murder there...
Said Boss Hillman, rubbing out the G.O.P.'s "Clear it with Sidney" campaign slogan: "President Roosevelt's reelection. . . has been cleared with the American people." Now Hillman, like Miner Lewis after 1936, could try to collect dividends on P.A.C.'s investment...
Died. Jack Miner, 79, famed Canadian ornithologist, founder of a pioneer North American bird sanctuary in Kingsville, Ont. ; after a heart attack; in Kingsville. He clipped aluminum bands stamped with scriptural texts and his address on to birds' legs; received in 1943 the Order of the British Empire from George...