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...lately had Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, elder and wiser of Cleveland's bachelor brothers of railroading, on the carpet in his Washington office, trying to find out when their great Western carrier would be reorganized. Last week's meeting at the Down Town Association was called by MOP's trustees. Mr. Jones and Mr. Van Sweringen were the most important guests at the luncheon that led off the three-hour session...
Short, rotund, with a greying golliwogg mop of hair, Einstein hates to wear a hat, likes to wander in the country or sail a small boat, plays the violin with concert skill. Last March he was put on the official Nazi black list, deprived of German citizenship. Though he has Swiss citizen ship, Einstein has lived in the U. S. since last autumn, goes each winter to work at the Flexner-directed Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. There he lives in the seclusion he likes, with his comfortable Hausfrau...
...letters describe the body variously as silver and orange, orchid and light green; its shape is depicted, by comparison, as a mop handle, a boy's kite, a pop bottle, or, most commonly, a sky rocket...
...McKeown's defeat was that his successor is likely to be unique among House characters in the next Congress. Winner of the Democratic nomination was Judge "P. L." Gassaway whose first name is, though few Oklahomans know it, Percy. Judge Gassaway has piercing black eyes and a mop of flowing black hair, wears a broad-brimmed black felt hat, black tie, wing collar, black suit and high-heeled black cowboy boots. He was never a cowboy. He comes from Coalgate in Coal County, is the son of a missionary to the Indians and is famed for his peculiar behavior...
...destroyed pamphlets and papers. A pleased and approving populace looked on from a safe distance. Five minutes after the raiders left police arrived on the scene to clean up. One Communist meeting place after another was similarly visited by the "vigilantes." In each case police arrived immediately afterward to mop up. Police arrested over 300 men and women found in Communist quarters. Of the first no tried, five proved to be aliens without proper admission papers or with criminal records, were sent to Angel Island for deportation. Some 20 U. S. citizens with criminal records were sentenced to jail...