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Meanwhile last week Soviet newsorgans reported that Dictator Stalin had gone unannounced for a stroll in Moscow's Park of Culture & Rest, the result being that he was soon surrounded by an enthusiastic group of little boys & girls who called him "Uncle Stalin...
Once King Henry VIII loved nothing better than to throw his arm about the neck of the author of Utopia and stroll with Sir Thomas More in his garden by the Thames. Of his sovereign, Sir Thomas said: ''If my head should win him a castle in France, it should not fail to go.'' But More's head went for a different purpose. Becoming Chancellor of England in 1529, this pious Catholic scholar and lawyer opposed Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon, his plan to make himself head of the English church. Gentle...
...must drive at a crawl permitting instant stops should a pedestrian wish to cross. No other subject in years has so roused Punch, which now prints an average of two Hore-Belishing cartoons a week. Asks an irate female motorist in a recent cartoon across which smug pedestrians stroll (see cut): "Don't you loathe these beastly Belisha faces...
...week James Ramsay MacDonald can step out of No. 10 Downing St., stroll across the greensward to Buckingham Palace and "advise" King George to dissolve the House of Commons. In France power to block such dissolution is held by the Senate. In practice this joker has produced a tribe of Deputies 'and Senators in open conspiracy to keep their lucrative seats as long as possible...
...dapper, debonair Tugwell asserted that he was a real dirt farmer albeit the soil on his shoes came from an early morning stroll through his apple orchard and this week, Washington's No. 1 man, Richberg reveals he is a born conservative, dyed in the purple and to the manor bern. Meanwhile the sudden change fro m "End Poverty," to "End Prosperity," in Sinclair's slogan for California has resulted in a rebuff from Roosevelt which materially damages that picturesque purveyor of political panaceas' chances of election. An entertaining spectacle this, in all its ironic humor, but pertinent to this...