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...sugar-scoop coat or high hat clothed Lord Lothian. To the confusion of protocol, he wore a black pin-stripe business suit, a loosely knotted dark tie, black bump-toed shoes, glasses with light grey plastic rims, a grey Homburg hat. He pushed open the right-hand door to the Executive offices (the left is always locked), walked over the black-and-white checkered linoleum, around the Philippine red narra table and back to the President's office. He gave his hat to Pat McKenna, ancient doorguard, and walked...
...imports to save its foreign exchange), the military men professed to believe that the Japanese war machine in China had bogged down. Cheeriest of all was dapper little General Chen Cheng, Political Minister of the National Military Council, one of the central figures in the Central Military Academy clique, right-hand man to the Generalissimo. Said he: "Before 1941 Japan will be begging for peace." The General's rosy picture was painted from numerous facts, figures, estimates, generalizations gathered and made by Chinese, in part substantiated by foreign observers. Background for Chinese military optimism...
...request." The Commissar, it was explained later, was ill, had been suffering from heart disease. His job would henceforth be taken by Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, President of the Council of People's Commissars, a member of the all-powerful Political Bureau of the Communist Party, right-hand man to Dictator Joseph Stalin for some 15 years...
...never left Australia until he represented his country at the Royal Jubilee in 1935, where he was so awed when he first saw Queen Mary that he could but exclaim: "Magnificent! Magnificent!" Last week he left his country for good, leaving behind his wife, whom he called "his right-hand man," and his "cricket team": eleven children...
...might already have lost the war had it not been for a Brazilian campaign squabble in 1930. That fight ended in a revolutionary coup d'état by the two powerful leaders of the State of Rio Grande do Sul: dressy little Getulio Vargas and his backer and right-hand man, handsome, dashing Oswaldo Aranha. Vargas as President, Aranha as Ambassador to the U. S. and later as Foreign Minister, have been Latin America's most consistently friendly apostles of the U. S. and its works...