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Harry Hopkins, the President's sallow, stringy right-hand man, flew to London this week on his second secret mission. The flight's objective was as secret as his departure: even White House intimates didn't know Hopkins had gone until he was in the air. The first inquirers were told that Hopkins had gone to England merely to take another look-see for the President. But the same thing had been said at the time of Mission 1; only later had it developed that the real purpose was to find out for sure whether Great Britain...
...young Indianan who worked under Harry Hopkins as a State WPAdministrator, was a longtime protege of Indianan Paul McNutt, outgrew McNutt to become increasingly important to the President as a drafter of domestic and defense programs. He is spectacled, sallow, and extremely fast of mind...
...physical city tamed too. Gothic extravagance yielded to gracious Georgian façades; Disraeli snorted over London's architectural insipidity. The criminals, the riffraff and the poor were vital; the rest of the nation was one sallow hunk of middle-class mutton. Where berserk bulls had once been a traffic problem, "scorchers" on bicycles were called a public menace. The last gold sovereigns of England sang on the counters of World War I. Most revealing of all was the history of city lighting: after centuries of blackness, a slow, fuliginous dawn of lanterns and dim cressets, then mirrored lamps...
...Sallow face crimson, fists waving, Frank Hague yelled denials that there had been any ballot-box stuffing, fraudulent voting, terrorizing of voters in Hudson County. Sample lines from the script...
...Quezon first bobbed into view in 1909-a small, nervous, sallow man with bushy eyebrows, who had gone to Washington as Resident Commissioner of the newly acquired Philippines. A Spanish-Malay mestizo, born of schoolteaching par ents on the island of Luzon, he had fought in the insurrectionist army against Spain, afterwards against the U. S. invaders. Full of energy, brilliant, brittle, as unpredictable as a hummingbird, he spent seven years reminding the U. S. Government of its promises to set the islands free. When he left Washington he had in his pocket the Jones Act, which did not give...