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With that taut solemnity which belongs only to steeplejacks and women athletes playing for their country, Helen Jacobs and Mrs. Wightman's protege, Sarah Palfrey Fabyan, began edging their team up by winning the first doubles match against Miss Stammers and Freda James. The next afternoon Mrs. Fabyan, who...
When Comrade Kaganovich, hardest-boiled protege of the hard-boiled Dictator, was appointed Commissar for Transport, the most broken-down part of Russia's economic structure was her railways. For years Comrade Stalin had been having railwaymen shot after every wreck, ignoring their pleas that they desperately needed new...
The Dutch Premier last week made only the merest gesture toward any sort of New Deal. He tolerates as his Minister of Commerce & Industry a protege of Professor Aalberse, Professor Henri Gelissen, who will work out an acceptable plan for government subsidies to depressed Dutch businesses.
¶Forced Prime Minister Baldwin to admit, grudgingly but imperturbably, that he may have bumbled when he created for his swank protege Captain Anthony Eden the office of Minister for League of Nations Affairs at ?3,000 ($15,000) per year alongside Sir Samuel Hoare who is the regular Foreign...
¶ Ridiculed the Prime Minister's other protege Lord Eustace Percy, who is an unattached Minister Without Portfolio, also at ?3,000 per year, for resoundingly back-slapping Protege Eden. "Captain Eden," declared Lord Eustace Percy, "is the greatest diplomatic genius this country has produced for a generation."