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...Archibald is seldom heard in Parliament. One reason is that, on his feet, he stammers. Yet this 49-year-old Scottish baronet, who owns 100,000 acres in Caithness, lives in Thurso Castle and rose to the top in Parliament as a diligent, sincere, fighting Liberal, is a nailer for work, a respected soldier, and at a radio microphone none can read a speech more mellifluously than he. Last week he went on the air. Said...
...Provisional President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes worked like a nailer to entrench his new Government (TIME, Aug. 21). Most of Havana was gay and businesslike again, even though shots were heard every few hours as long-oppressed Cubans continued their man hunt to kill every member of ousted Tyrant Machado's detested terrorist squads, the Porra, blamed by all Cuba for countless political murders and ghastly torture of prisoners. Meanwhile the big white Cuban problem which most worried Provisional President de Cespedes, U.S. Ambassador Welles and President Roosevelt was-and seems likely to remain-sugar...
...counsel, then Wisconsin's insurance commissioner. He heckled the insurance companies enough to make them agree to the regulations now enforced, smiled enough to keep in the good graces of the companies. Northwestern made him a vice president in 1919. He is big, hearty, broad-shouldered, a nailer for work. Insurance people predict that under him Northwestern's shiny marble tomb will lose some of its historic chilliness...
...Subscriber Hammerel point to three sentences in TIME in support of his theory that TIME is not impartial. TIME, nailer of facts, will gladly nail on the head any charge of dishonest advertising.-ED. Hoover's Bacon...
...TORRENTS OF SPRING-Ernest Hemingway-Scribner's ($1.50). It seems that young Mr. Hemingway, who works like a nailer over his own writing, with extraordinarily promising results, was going about his business in Paris, lunching frequently with Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos and even H. G. Wells, when a copy of Black Laughter by Sherwood Anderson reached him and caused him a bit of a pain. Perhaps other people were similarly affected by that earnest study of a dissatisfied newspaperman who abandoned his wife and wandered around until he got another man's wife, whose...
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