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Last week stout Ernie Bevin, His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, walked ponderously up to the UNO rostrum and made a limited but specific speech that started a new deal for dependencies...
...Russian Orthodox hierarchy of the U.S. and Canada, who cut loose from Moscow in 1917, met in Chicago. They heard the Patriarch Alexei's delegate demand submission to Moscow. In pious language, they told him to peddle his Moscovite peanuts elsewhere. Metropolitan Theophilus of San Francisco, a stout believer in freedom for conscience and for God's church, told Alexei to repeal his Ukase 94 of last February. Key section of that ukase: Orthodox Churchmen in North and South America must "abstain from all political activity against the U.S.S.R...
...ceiling for detective stories is 20,000 copies (it was somewhat lower before the war). Any author who sells in the 15,000 to 20,000 bracket is tops. In this bracket are writers like Erie Stanley Gardner, Raymond Chandler, Ellery Queen, Rex Stout, Mabel Seeley, Mignon Eberhart, Craig Rice...
...Falls Trust Co., a blue and grey bank-on-wheels. Thurston will do a roving banking business within a go-mile radius of his Rumford Falls bank. The 23-ft. trailer is equipped with a cashier's counter, a teller's cage, a private office, and a stout safe...
Prime Minister Fierlinger's Russophilism pulls the Social Democrats toward the Communists. But Dr. Benes has a stout friend in Monsignor Sramek, whose reports presumably account for the Vatican's belief that predominantly Catholic (74%) Czechoslovakia may indeed find its middle...