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Counsel for Mother Jones. Davis was born in 1873 in Clarksburg, W. Va., on April 13, the birthday of Thomas Jefferson, and he became one of his country's staunchest advocates of the democracy of Jefferson. As a West Virginia attorney Davis once joined Socialist Eugene V. Debs in defending the United Mine Workers' firebrand organizer, Octogenarian "Mother" Mary Jones, on charges of inciting a riot in a coal strike...
Ramon Magsaysay, the forthright, freewheeling young (47) President of the Philippines, is one of the staunchest friends the U.S. has in Asia. His vast popularity in the country and the immense Philippine good will towards the U.S. is often not reflected in Congress, where shrewd politicians in Magsaysay's own Nacionalista Party often succeed in putting a brake on him. Chief among them is Senator Claro Recto, 65, a brilliant, caustic lawyer who has never forgotten or forgiven the U.S. for his being put in prison at World War II's end by Douglas Mac-Arthur (Recto served...
During the stormy 30's, when U.S.-Soviet relations were largely filled with acrimony, the staunchest friend of the United States in Moscow was probably Marshal Kliment E. Voroshilov, Minister of Defense and member of the Politburo. A non-com in the Czarist army, Voroshilov was made an officer by Trotsky's decree of August 13, 1918. His rise was phenomenal: reaching Defense Minister only six years later, he has ever since been among the half-dozen key men in the Moscow hierarchy. Quickly he came to close terms with William C. Bullitt, the first U.S. ambassador to the Soviet...
...Washington's staunchest bachelors, new House Speaker Sam Rayburn, 63, made a date with his youngest sister, Lucinda Rayburn, gallantly helped her into a fur wrap before they headed for the White House, where Texas-Democrat Rayburn was the President's dinner guest of honor...
...trivial" Manila Defense Pact. But Nehru's area of peace, it seemed, was already coming unstuck: neighboring Nepal complained about Red China's infiltration of its northern Himalayas; Burma, worried by Communist guerrillas in its own country, wanted tangible reassurance of Chinese good intentions; even Indonesia, staunchest of Nehru's supporters, was put out by Red China's claim of jurisdiction over Indonesia's 3,000,000 Chinese. As Nehru proceeded on his way, paying a friendly call at Hanoi, he was surprised when Ho Chi Minh, president of the Red Viet Minh...