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...Ways & Means Committee of the House to make their best pleas. First to enter the ornate marble committeeroom was Ogden Livingston Mills, Undersecretary of the Treasury on whom the President leaned heavily during those troublous June days before France was jockeyed into line for the Moratorium. He told plump, mild-eyed Democratic Chairman James Collier and his 24 committee colleagues that Congress would be "everlastingly disgraced" if it failed to approve the agreement...
...witness stand. She seldom heard her own name (Charlotte Fixel) or the name she had chosen when she was a chorus girl (Charlotte Leslie) mentioned by either counsel. Mr. Kresel called her "the contestant"; Mr. Steuer, pointing, described her as "the lady at the end of the table." Plump, smiling, dressed in the slightly garish style of a typical upper-west side hausfrau, Charlotte Fixel waited for the court to decide whether she was entitled to demand one-half of an estate which she estimated at $75,000,000 or whether she would emerge, after her years of slightly dubious...
...cubism. Back in Mexico City he was the leading figure in a group of quasi-Communist artists who have become the leaders in the Mexican renaissance: Jose Clemente Orozco, Jean Chariot. Carlos Merida, Pachecho. They worked for a flat rate of $4 (eight pesos) a day and hired a plump little boy to bring them water and wash their brushes. The water boy was Miguel Covarrubias. now famed smartchart caricaturist...
Winston Churchill, plump British statesman, visiting Manhattan on a lecture tour, tried to cross Fifth Avenue against traffic lights, was bowled over by an automobile. Injuries: sprained shoulder, abrasions of forehead & nose...
...bless the alterations of the Basilica had come Most Rev. Pascual Diaz, plump, jolly, Indian-blooded Archbishop of Mexico; Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, Apostolic Delegate to Mexico; ten bishops and the entire clergy of Mexico City. Tourists warned by all-wise Guide Terry brought binoculars to gaze at the til ma above the high altar. After High Mass there began a solemn procession through the Basilica.* At its head was the Sacred Golden Crown, covered with brilliants, emeralds, rubies and turquoises. Suddenly, just before it was to be hoisted in place above the Virgin's portrait, sharp-eyed...