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...fairly frequent visitor to the White House in the early days of the Administration was Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin, the plump radiorator from Royal Oak, Mich. He subsequently split with the President over Inflation, the Bonus, the World Court. Recently, however, Father Coughlin shut up his Washington lobby, conceded: "President Roosevelt enunciates the clearest, most effective and beneficial principles of social and economic justice of any living American political economist." That Franklin Roosevelt had taken a potent critic into camp seemed to be confirmed last week when Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy of the Securities & Exchange Commission rolled up to Hyde...
...Insider was Seymour Weiss, one-time barbershop manager who now runs New Orleans' biggest hotel and the Dock Board, a plump, baldish, suave, natty Jew credited with handling the Long money bags so adroitly that, while he himself is under Federal indictment for income tax evasion, a four-year Treasury search has yet to turn up any charge against the Kingfish, whose fortune last week was variously estimated from...
Probably the ablest religious editor of any U. S. newspaper is Rachel Kollock McDowell of the New York Times. A plump, energetic spinster in her 50's, Miss McDowell loves her work. She regularly has 25 reporters assigned to cover Sunday sermons, bombards the city desk with memoranda urging additional coverage of religious events. Armed with a capacious handbag she personally reports important gatherings like the Presbyterian General Assembly-dear to her heart because she is devoutly of that faith. Indomitable Miss McDowell hates swearing, sends out a memorandum every New Year's Eve reminding the staff...
...hustling little manufacturer of candy bars, cocoa and chocolate is Ambrosia Chocolate Co. of Milwaukee which employs 155 people. Its president is a plump, smiling German named Gretchen Schoenleber who inherited the concern from her father. Miss Schoenleber, middle-aged and businesslike, regularly puts her black low-heeled brogues under her desk before 8 o'clock every morning. Once a stenographer, later general manager of Ambrosia chocolate, she rules her executives with a firm German hand, is fond of saying: "The fact I'm a woman makes no difference...
...Haile Selassie arose early, stepped into his automobile which took him up a hill to the octagonal, ornate Cathedral of St. Ghiorghis. He took off his wing-tipped sport shoes, padded into the gold-veiled sanctuary. Empress Waizeru Menen, who dearly loves the Christian solace of confession, and 70 plump brown Ethiopian ladies entered the Cathedral by another door. In concentric circles according to rank squatted court functionaries, deacons, laymen, foreign missionaries and U. S. Chargé d'Affaires Cornelius Engert. With rain beating monotonously outside, there arose the sound of bells and, from the sanctuary, the clash...