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Young Pittman made inquiries at Seattle. Dude Lewis was well known. The slim Southerner was straightway taken in to a law office that was as luxuriously civilized as Seattle was rough and pioneer; greeted by a redhaired, red-bearded man of extreme elegance-James Hamilton Lewis, then only a dude lawyer, but soon to be a Congressman from Washington, later a Senator from Illinois...
Ordeal By Egg. In Detroit, plump divorcee Doris La Roue, 31, RFC employe, pleaded guilty to tossing a metal wastebasket, a telephone book, an ash tray and other furniture oddments from an 18th story window during a downtown Willkie parade. Said Miss La Roue, denounced by the President, and straightway discharged from her job: "Something came over me." Her victim, Miss Betty Wilson, got twelve stitches in her head, flowers, national sympathy...
...heard that Mrs. Ericksen did not like the American Youth Congress, to which Mrs. Roosevelt is very partial. Last month she invited Mrs. Ericksen to the White House. There the astounded Mrs. Ericksen was met by the President's wife and members of the A. Y.C., who straightway whelmed her with arguments. Mrs. Ericksen spent the night, went home, wrote a "thank you" note to her hostess, added: "But my opinion of the American Youth Congress has not changed." Retorted Mrs. Roosevelt, who is not easily downed: "May I come and speak to your community?" and set a date...
When the Gripsholm landed him and 69 other volunteers in Finland, Oscar Penttila was straightway re-enrolled as a captain, given a battalion which included 20 other U. S. volunteers. They went out on 58 ski patrols, fought Russians 40 times, lost one dead and three wounded. Of some 500 U. S. and Canadian volunteers (including expatriate Finns) who got to Finland, about 40 saw front-line fighting, 14 were killed. Some were unfit for soldiering. Many needed training, were still getting it at camps in northern Finland when the war ended. In Finnish towns where they were sent...
...week's end Mr. Studebaker emerged from his conference with a plan to run the nation's vocational schools on double and triple shifts, starting this summer. Some 600 schools straightway prepared to give ten-week courses of training. 40 hours a week, to 150.000 youngsters and unemployed oldsters. To pay the cost ($100 a student), President Roosevelt signed a Deficiency Appropriation Bill appropriating...