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...Trust is managed by the young, pretty, blonde wife of Premier Molotov (TIME, June 13), close friend of young, brunette Mme Stalin. For good measure tart Beatrice Webb added: "Some of the young women I saw at Caucasian seaside resorts were dressed far too smartly." Shrewd Sidney Webb kept mum. The Soviet censor passed Beatrice Webb's blurt...
...nomination at which the electorate will have its first real chance to vote Wet or Dry. Senator Ellison Durant Smith, a personal Dry stumping for renomination, stands shyly by the Chicago convention's plank. Ashton H. Williams of Florence is aggressively championing Repeal. Leon Harris of Anderson keeps mum on liquor. Coleman Livingston Blease, a Wet-drinking Dry trying to get back into the Senate, declares: "My people voted for Prohibition and I'll stand for it until they vote again...
...Hubbard Woods, Ill., the lanky, 26-year-old son of Walter Lowrie Fisher, one of Chicago's leading lawyers. Secretary of the Interior under President Taft. Howard Fisher is both a technician and theorist in architecture. Architects in many lands have read his paper on getting the maxi mum amount of sunlight into a house. He is considered an expert on designing squash courts. One day he noticed his brother's walls were leaking. When he found out that Chicago's Field Museum and Shedd Aquarium, both masonry structures, also had leak troubles, he decided steel would be a better...
...executive committee of Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co. (with which his Chatham Phenix National Bank & Trust Co. was merged in February). While president of the Michigan Bankers' Association he discovered that national banks might branch with the Comptroller of the Currency's permission. He kept mum, went to New York to purchase the old Phenix Bank. After merging the Chatham Bank, he acquired several others which he operated as branches. Bets as high as $5,000 were made that he would be stopped. Permission was granted by the Comptroller, a written opinion obtained from the Attorney General...
Rousing cheers for Churchill showed the mood of the House. That mood was Opportunity knocking at the door of David Lloyd George. He had been silent in debate since last October, mum since the General Election of that month robbed him of all following in the House except three M. P.'s who are members of his family.? Seeing his chance last week the Welshman rose and launched into an oration which soon drew cheer on cheer...