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...Author Milne has never been in the U. S. Slim, fair, he has "one wife, one son, one house, one recreation?golf." He smokes a pipe. He is tired of being known as "whimsical." Other books: The Red House Mystery, The Day's Play, The Holiday Round, Wirmie-the-Pooh, Now We Are Six, The House at Pooh Corner...
...potent a reducer of banks as mergers and failures, was sung last week to the House Committee on Banking & Currency by Charles Edwin Mitchell of National City. The small bank, he maintained, is more efficient as part of an ably directed system than as an independent unit. He pooh-poohed the bogey of a financial octopus with: "Banking is not a business which can be monopolized...
...Wappingers Falls, N. Y., a man ordered Judd Schmidt to move his motor car from a restricted parking area. "Where d'y' get your authority?" demanded Mr. Judd. The man displayed a gold badge. Scoffed Mr. Judd: "Pooh, pooh, you're only a fireman." The badged man was Mayor John Flood of Wappingers Falls, who forthwith arrested contemptuous Mr. Judd...
...friend he is. He wanted to take the floor to denounce "General" Brown for carrying on a subterranean vice-presidential campaign. But Mr. Curtis dissuaded him. The Vice President let it be known through his friends that he would not lift a finger for renomination. "General" Brown's friends pooh-poohed the Brookhart yarns, insisted Mr. Brown would not take the Vice-Presidency nomination if it were offered...
Since the alacrity of Mayor Walker's political opponents to pooh-pooh the idea of their being connected with such underhanded operations as wire-tapping was matched only by the promptness with which the Mayor himself assured the public he cared not a whit if they did listen, one must conclude that some motive lying deeper than matters of state actuated the recent listening in on the Mayor's telephones...