Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were harsh words and bruised feelings quickly soothed, like Argentina's when she walked out, miffed at having missed a vice presidency. There was the poor, estranged relative waiting in the vestibule-Austria, whose bid to come in was turned down "with a note of sympathy." There was an inevitable sponger, Russia, who couldn't come herself but sent word by two neighbors, Czechoslovakia and Poland, that she could use a share of the League's leftover funds. There were bustling busybodies, unable to get their minds off last-minute arrangements, like China with her demand...
...blue-gowned but urbane Chen, once a revolutionary and after that Kuomintang Minister of Industry and Commerce, did not lose the polite composure that had lent an oddly gracious note to his trial. Bowing, he had told the court: "Whatever judgment your honor may pass on me, I will not appeal...
...Duke of Hamilton, 43, headed home after a U.S. business trip and a visit to his old Oxford pal, New York State Boxing Commissioner, Eddie Eagan. The business: getting a new transatlantic air service under way. Once an amateur boxer of note, the greying, fiddle-fit Lord said he rarely put on the gloves any more -last time was about a year ago, with one of his two small sons. Did he want them to be boxers? Said the noncommittal Duke: they could be whatever they wanted...
Businessmen who remember how Lawyer Mason won a case before FTC by quoting his own doggerel-were delighted at the sympathetic note from the other side of the fence. If the new commissioner has his way, FTC will be, in his own words, more like a policeman directing traffic than one operating speed traps...
...clarify the misconceptions evidenced in the article and in the statement of Mr. Rose, we enclose two pictures. One is of an actual Wellesley girl waiting for a bus to Chelsea (note the Phi Beta Kappa key over the right ear). The other is merely a typical product of our cooperative house at Radcliffe. The wonderful part about this Radcliffe "doll" is that she combines not only the legs of Mrs. Billy Rose and the brain of Miss Wellesley '46 but also she wraps it up very neatly in a 5 ft. 8 in., auburned-haired, 128 lb. package...