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...Read in the Washington Post an article by his biographer, handsome Ernest K. Lindley, quoting point-blank un-Rooseveltian answers to point-blank political questions by a Democratic stalwart (supposedly South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes), who was fed to the gums with the Term III mystery. Mr. Roosevelt was interested to read that he had said flatly: he would not run again unless the Germans overrun England; that Cordell Hull is his choice for successor, is safe, can be elected; that the Vice Presidency lay between Bob Jackson, Paul McNutt, Burt Wheeler; that Jim Farley would...
Last week the two Kings of Sweden and Norway spoke up boldly. Surrounded by stalwart Life Guards cloaked in the gaudy uniforms Charles XII designed for them over two centuries ago, King Gustaf V opened the Swedish Riksdag by declaring: "Finland's involvement in armed conflict touches the Swedish people. . . . Sweden feels an obligation to give Finland's brave people every material humanitarian help which is possible while heeding its own position." Finance Minister Ernst Johannes Wigforss indicated what form that heeding would take. He presented the first 2,000,000,000-kroner (about $476,600,000) budget...
...night in the roaring '20s Singer Raymond charged into his Hollywood home, ordered out of it Paul Kelly, stalwart young screen juvenile. Said Kelly: "You think I'm in love with your wife - and I am." A few months later Kelly came back. In the presence of Actress Mackaye and her daughter, Valerie Raymond, 4, Kelly threatened Raymond. But the singer, who said he had been drinking for two weeks, did not want to fight. Kelly slugged him. Ray Raymond died of the injuries he received. Contributing cause: acute alcoholism...
Lowell House contributed both the tackles to the team in the stalwart forms of Dean Morse and Mac Thurston. Morse's chunky 180 pounds and his powerful drive kept him in opposing backfields all through the season, while tall, rangy Thurston, captain of the Bellboys, was responsible for keeping his side of the line effectually plugged...
When he had painted all the blue pictures he wanted to paint, Picasso immersed himself in the life of Paris, went to the circus once a week and to prize fights with two new, tall, stalwart friends: Painter Andre Derain and Poet Guillaume Apollinaire. Working more during the day, in 1905 and 1906 Picasso poured out the pictures of the Rose Period: —robats, harlequins, companies of jugglers and players all painted with a wistful delicacy and long-boned grace. By 1907 he had been sufficiently housebroken to go to the Stein "at homes...