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...Chungking Currie went everywhere, saw and talked to everyone. To Chiang Kai-shek and the Government, uncertain of President Roosevelt's Far Eastern policy, the very presence of one of Roosevelt's right-hand men was a stimulant. Still more so were his suggestions about land taxes...
Meanwhile, the Commission has plenty of other things to do. No. 2 man of the Commission, hulking Captain Howard LeRoy Vickery (on leave from the Navy), Jerry Land's right-hand man, is in charge of ship construction. Captain Edward J. Macauley (who replaces Lawyer Max O'Rell Truitt on April 1) is a specialist on ship design, will be assigned accordingly. Bushy-browed, big-nosed Thomas Mullen Woodward, Philadelphia lawyer, does the Commission's legal jobs, is charged with enforcement of control of foreign commerce. Ruddy, white-haired ex-Congressman John J. Dempsey handles the Commission...
...Supreme Court. An NLRB ruling that Mr. Ford had violated the Wagner Act was upheld by the Circuit Court. The Supreme Court declined to review the case when Ford appealed. About the only limb left was delay. Toward that limb Mr. Ford was edging. Said his hardfisted, right-hand man, Harry Bennett: "If the NLRB orders an election, of course we will hold one, because Mr. Ford will observe the law. C. I. O. will win it, of course, because it always wins these farcical elections, and we will bargain with it because the law says so. We will bargain...
...help of the second of the Cristo line she foils him in every respect. This fellow Cristo (Louis Hayward) is less convincing in his portrayal of virility than is Alice Faye in the role of Virtue Rewarded. The one slightly redeeming feature of the picture is Gurko's right-hand man, a strange mixture of Akim Tamiroff and the master of Mike's Club. Though half the time it's hard to tell whether he's trying to look silly or insidious, he nevertheless stands out brightly against the rest of the cast merely by virtue of a perfectly unconscious...
...fantasies which unfolded in Africa last week, the most dramatic was described over the radio by General Georges Catroux, former Governor General of French Indo-China, now right-hand man to Free Frenchman Charles de Gaulle...