Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Publisher Norman Chandler of the Los Angeles Times and Mirror. Garland is a Warrenite, but favors Taft as a second choice. This is largely because Garland owes his position on the delegation to his relationship with Chandler, and Chandler is for Taft. However, Mrs. Garland (Chandler's sister) is for Ike, and so are Mrs. Chandler and some other members of the family who own stock in the papers. The Chandler family compromise has been to have the Times plug for Taft, the Mirror for Ike. With pressures of that kind at work, Garland could well be tipped from...
...China, gladly sent the mission, but carefully staffed it with cool-headed observers whose impressions he could trust, as he no longer trusts his credulous ambassador, K. M. Panikkar, now recalled home. As chief delegate he chose his closest confidante and most recent envoy to Washington: his sister, Mme. Pandit...
...breast-high table so he would lose no time dashing off to composing room or editor's office. His nose for news was so sharp that, at 29, he was named editor, and seven years later co-managing director of both the News and its more famous sister, the Manchester Guardian. At a time when many of Britain's papers were backing the government's appeasement policy toward the Nazis, Haley, a staunch Liberal, wrote forthright editorials attacking the government...
...right. An instinct of danger swept over one-armed Kurt Schumacher. He stepped to the right and marched off with the ablebodied. The men on the left were never seen alive again. By 1943, so ill and ravaged that the Nazis set him free to go home to his sister's in Hannover to die, he was a pitiful walking cadaver, with ulcers, yellowing stumps for teeth, flickering eyesight. Schumacher still carried in him 17 pieces of shrapnel from World...
Under Any Name. On the speaker's stand, Borghese talks loftily and in generalities. The more raucous Fascist political effects are left to the moth-eaten old (69) Lion of Ethiopia, Rodolfo Graziani, recently arrested for giving the Fascist salute at the funeral of Mussolini's sister...