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Winston Churchill was sailing homeward aboard the Queen Mary when Egypt's mobs swarmed through Cairo, demanding an immediate declaration of war on his nation. The U.S. State Department was leisurely considering, and disliking, Churchill's plea for a token show of U.S. force in Suez. Bloodshed in Ismailia, followed by vengeful bloodletting in Cairo, ended the false calm...
...after seeing how easily he got acquittals for rich dry-law offenders. So wholesale were his operations that, on one occasion, a freight train chuffed into Cincinnati with 18 full carloads of liquor consigned to Remus. After shooting his wife in cold blood, he successfully defended himself on a plea of insanity. Sent to a mental hospital, he quickly proved his sanity and won his freedom by invoking the testimony of the prosecution's three alienists. Remus swore to the end that he "never tasted a drop of intoxicating beverage" in his life...
...made a strong plea for Point Four aid to Asia: "Less than one-third the expenditures for the cost of World War II would have created the developments necessary to feed the whole world, so we would not have had 'stomach Communism' . . . Unless we fight that battle, and win it, we cannot win the cold war or a hot one, either...
Reynolds added a plea that dinners cut on waste and exercise restraint in taking beverages, so that further rate increase can be avoided...
...court promised to consider the plea. Meanwhile, not to let a sleeping story lie, Billy was busy on another tack. He hired a West Coast attorney to check the validity of Eleanor's 1938 divorce from Bandleader Art Jarrett. The divorce was quite in order, retorted Eleanor's attorney, but so far as Rose's action was concerned, "I shall not comment on its moral nature except to say that I do not think it will rank high among the decent or gracious acts...