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Great Britain is perilously close to bankruptcy, and Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard Austen Butler minced no words about. "We are really up against it," he said last week. "Our lifeblood is draining away, and we have got to stop it." In contemporary Britain, the job that wealthy "Rab" Butler...
"Governor McKeldin is without question the finest orator the Republican party has today," Moore said. As the favorite-son candidate from Maryland he controls 24 votes to the national convention, he continued, "and may very well be the G.O.P. candidate for Vice-President if a deadlock occurs."
Died. Orator Francis Woodward, 67, multimillionaire Jell-O heir whose domestic troubles and "romantic interlude" with a nurse put him on the check-signing end of two thumping divorce settlements ($1,000,000 to his first wife in 1929, $42,000 a year to his second in 1941); by suicide...
A Balance of Power. "I have not come here to ask you for money-" he said, and paused, while relaxing laughter swept the legislators on guard against more British requests for U.S. aid. The orator continued: "-to ask you for money to make life more comfortable or easier for us...
Over the years, hundreds of members have also earned good marks after college. In its first 70 years, PBK added only six chapters; but by that time its reputation had already spread all over the U.S. When Harvard's chapter gave a dinner in 1824, Lafayette was there. At...