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gttf 1 abounds with humorous pen and ink sketches. In this particular it departs somewhat from its slightly older fraters, who rely only on the stanza arrangement of their verses to provide comic relief. I think it is enough to say that the primitivistic, etc., themes pervade these drawings, and to conclude from them that gttf 1 has not yet reached that pinnacle of sound literary achievement from which it may return to the cradle and proceed to make pictures of words...
...Gimo" and the Prime Minister enacted their historical roles, that sturdy character, the American taxpayer, was performing an annual spring rite. All over the U.S., men and women of varying degrees of substance were taking pen and fate into their own hands and calculating how much or how little of that substance must pass to the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Tax Time (NATIONAL AFFAIRS) has some faintly promising news for 60 million Americans...
...noon last week the President said, "I've been waiting a long time for this," reached across the brown blotter on his desk for a pen, and signed his name to the bottom right-hand corner of the last page of a blue leather-bound book. Then he handed the Paris accords to John Foster Dulles, who signed in the lower left-hand corner. Beaming, the President added, "Here are the two offspring of the treaty," and signed two more papers before handing them to his Secretary of State. The three documents granted West Germany sovereignty, ended the Allied...
...Archbishop Coadjutor by means of writings widely distributed from Seville throughout Spain." The leaflets (one title: Segura, Martyr of Truth), attacked the Cardinal's "enemies" and were reportedly approved by Segura himself. Said the Nuncio: "Put an end to the mutterings, maledictions and calumnies . . . May the pen break of those who write anonymous documents...
Professional Career. Until 1942 Faure practiced law, used his criminal cases as background for a series of detective stories written under the pen name of Edgar Sanday. The Faures caught the last boat to leave Vichy France for North Africa, where Edgar joined General de Gaulle. After liberation he was put in a financial job by Mendès, then Minister of National Economy. A typical Faure legend has it that he committed the 1,000-page tax catalogue to memory in four days, amazed the Assembly by answering questions on a complex tax proposal for two hours without preparation...