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President Stenio Vincent of Haiti is a silver-haired, silver-tongued politician who is supported as loyally by the lesser politicians of Port-au-Prince as he is hated by Haitian exiles in Harlem. His friends say he is a statesman; his enemies call him a dictator; both agree that he likes a pleasant job. Such a job is the Presidency of Haiti...
...mountainside in Kwangtung Province last week a Japanese naval plane crashed, killing bull-necked Admiral Baron Mineo Osumi, 64, Japan's Chief War Councilor. Known in Japan as a liberal influence second only to the late Elder Statesman Prince Kimmochi Saionji, Admiral Osumi was nevertheless also a stout advocate of the Japanese Navy's southward urge to empire. At week's end Chungking said that the plane had been shot down by guerrilla machine gunners, that the wreckage had yielded papers showing that Admiral Osumi was flying toward Hainan Island, off the south China coast, there...
...night Lord Halifax walked on deck. He talked to the men on night watch. This tall man of 59, deeply religious, had never been in the U. S.. nor had he met the unpredictable social reformer and statesman on whom Britain now counted -President Roosevelt...
...Bilbo, whose noteworthiest previous legislative contribution had been a bill to send unemployed Negroes back to Africa, startled the Senate by offering a resolution to end the unwritten rule that "female attaches of Senatorial staffs" (i.e., Senators' secretaries and clerks) be not allowed on the floor. Statesman Bilbo, whose Colleague Mrs. Caraway already has the privilege herself by virtue of her Senatorial office, hinted as delicately as he could that present conditions cast doubt on senatorial "justice and chivalry...
Died. Bishop Horace Mellard DuBose, 82, elder statesman of the Southern Methodist Church, author, editor, temperance leader; in Nashville. Vowed dry Dr. DuBose in 1932: "If the Angel Gabriel should come down and tell me that he had changed his mind on prohibition and wanted it resubmitted, I would not follow...