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...well as the eleventh American to win the award. Bunche's predecessors: Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Woodrow Wilson, Charles G. Dawes, Frank B. Kellogg, Nicholas Murray Butler and Jane Addams (joint winners), Cordell Hull, John R. Mott and Emily G. Balch (joint winners...
...Parliament, meanwhile, Conservative Major Charles Mott-Radclyffe has heatedly berated the government's kowtowish attitude-"This extremely humiliating position of offering unilateral recognition . . . without in turn receiving recognition ourselves." Conservative Air Commodore Arthur V. Harvey fumed over the disposal of former Nationalist planes in Hong Kong and shipments of British aircraft engines and frames to Red China: "It seems extraordinary that when we are accepting aid from our friends in the U.S. we should be handing over equipment in this way." Major Tufton Beamish quoted the 1920 prophecy of Stalin: "England's back will be broken...
...forcibly fed when she declined to eat. She helped found the National Woman's Party. She was the spiritual sister of Abigail Adams, of Amelia Jenks Bloomer, the first bloomer girl, of those heroines of women's rights-Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott-before whose statue in the crypt of the Capitol she had posed, tight-lipped and purposeful...
This week the Bargy formula began to pay off. She got a sponsor (the Duffy -Mott Co.), at least one settled time spot (Tues., 10:15 p.m.), and was hailed by Columnist Walter Winchell, who gushed that she was "new and refreshing . . . soft, sweet and dreamy." Mildly surprised by success, Jeanne Bargy said: "I'd been thinking of adding guest stars and things like that to my show. Now, I guess I'll keep...
...hotel room which she had fortified with a large supply of sleeping pills and a bottle of whisky, Whodunit Authoress Craig (Home Sweet Homicide) Rice, 41, had an explanation for the cops: it was all just a plot twist to win back her estranged fifth husband, Henry W. De Mott Jr., 29, whom she was suing for divorce. "It was a foolish thing to do," she admitted, "but sounded like a good idea at the time...