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Against the dragon, Hunger, strode a new knight last week. Out as Food Minister went Sir Ben Smith, a pottering ex-cabby; in came a more dashing champion, glamorous, aristocratic Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey. Of all Labor's hopefuls his was the shiniest armor and the sharpest lance. Impressive showings in the House as Under Secretary for Air had gained John Strachey's advancement to "the stickiest job in the Government...
Because he was also a prudent man, Dean Bonilla immediately hightailed it for the safety of the Mexican Consulate. When he emerged, on the Government's guarantee of security, a member of the secret police clubbed him with a steel riding crop as he strode into Ciudad Trujillo's Rialto Theater. He would probably have been shot had not his wife thrown herself in front of him as a shield. Bonilla got back to the consulate...
Next day the ambassador rode through the fashionable Calle Florida with his staff in three open horse-drawn coaches, to present his credentials to retiring President Edelmiro Farrell. As he strode into the Casa Rosada a band tooted the Star-Spangled Banner. At the President's annual dinner on the eve of Argentina's Independence Day, Messersmith had a chance to meet Perón and start talking. He expected the talks to continue, frankly said they would be without publicity...
Into the oval, colonial-style conference room in Ottawa's Parliament Building strode nine determined members of the Canadian Congress of Labor's potent Wage Committee. Before bustling, bumbling Labor Minister, Humphrey Mitchell, they laid a demand that the Government relax its vise-tight wage control. The C.C.L.'s potent argument: the wave of strikes which threatens Canada...
Soon after the Wall Street crash, Patterson the scandalmonger strode into the city room and announced: "We're off on the wrong foot. The people's major interest is in how they're going to eat." Next year, his $10,000,000 skyscraper was completed, with six words from Lincoln's famed homily about God loving the common people carved over the door: HE MADE SO MANY OF THEM. On March 6, 1933, the Daily News pledged itself to support President Roosevelt "for a period of at least one year." The support lasted almost...