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...with the young (28) king and his two trusted uncles-shrewd Prime Minister Mohammed Hashin Khan and dark-eyed War Minister Shah Mahmoud Khan. From these westernized leaders of 12,000,000 proud and primitive hillsmen, Engert could expect gracious hospitality. There would be tea and coffee, sweet cakes, pistachio ices and bowls of gigantic white mulberries. But whether there would be any cooperation in cleaning out Kabul's squirming nest of Axis intrigue was another question. An old proverb says: "It is easier to march into Kabul than to march out again...
...winter he ties up in the Chicago River near the Michigan Avenue Bridge. Tall, black-browed, weathered, he likes to cruise to Ontario's Georgian Bay with Radioman Powel Crosley Jr., agreeing beforehand not to mention radio. He likes checked suits and stiff collars, cocktails made with pistachio ice cream and gin. But what Eugene Francis McDonald likes most of all is to put on a diving helmet and sit on the floor of Georgian Bay watching the fish...
Last year the U. S. sold Iran $4,339,000 worth of machinery, bought $3,635,000 worth of rugs, furs, gum, quince seeds and pistachio nuts. That this business might be picked up by Britain was curiously anticipated by the London Sphere, which three weeks ago, ran on its second page a studio portrait of the King of Kings and a caption lifted intact from the Iran Government handouts which describe that monarch as born "of a very noble Persian family ... of the purest element of the Iranian race...
Confident Romans cooled themselves amid last week's heat with Italy's newly named "Ethiopia Ice Cream"-chocolate with pistachio nuts. Even Benito Mussolini's most scornful critics, Europe's Socialist and Communist Press, admitted that he has now fired his people with exultant zeal for conquering Ethiopia, plus hopes of absorbing Austria as a later move to ''restore the Universality of Rome!" In the general rush to enlist now sweeping Italy's languid, aristocratic youth even the Dictator's baby-faced son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, last week planned...
Before going to his own office, the President wanted to see the rest of the building, and Gus Gennerich rolled him around the main floor?through Louis Howe's office with its pale pistachio green walls (about which the President's No. 1 secretary grumbled softly); through the office of Secretary Howe's Secretary Margaret Durand (whose nickname is "Rabbit"); across the vestibule where Captain Clarence L. Dalrymple and Lieutenant Larry Seamen of the White House uniformed police force stand guard to pass legitimate visitors, turn back cranks. The President peeked into the new room set aside for White House...