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Kipling despised and hated democracy in all its forms. "Democracy," says Mr. Shanks, "meant to him simply a system under which incompetent people strove to take work out of the hands of people competent to do it." Kipling apparently imbibed this conviction with his mother's milk, and it was cud enough for him to chew all his life long. Even Partisan Shanks does not quite like the sound of some of Kipling's youthful regurgitations. Speaking of Kipling's early manner, Shanks deprecates his "cynical knowingness . . . drawling and cynical knowledge , . . not really an endearing quality...
...Strove once more, in a secret message, to hold Italy at peace. Constantly the President, now working far into every night, counseled with elegant William Phillips, U. S. Ambassador in Rome, urging on II Duce the benefits of keeping U. S. good will. There was no sign that his efforts were having any real effect: foreign experts believed Premier Mussolini only awaited the perfect moment to strike. And up & down the Capitol II Duce was referred to as "The Jackal...
...House Appropriations Committee found no existing law that would authorize the appropriation. Last week the bill reached the Senate. Gallantly Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas led a fight for life for the U. S. Film Service, strove to get the $106,400 restored to the bill. Senators voted it down. It looked like a fade-out for the U. S. Film Service...
Husband Wanger, one of Midwick's few movie members, strove manfully to bring the social irreconcilables together. He had little luck. The only real fraternization went on in the party of tall, dark Mrs. Edwin Earl and her husband, whose father owned Los Angeles' defunct Express. Her group contained Lawyer Thomas Joyce, Comedian Robert Benchley, Cinemactress Rosalind Russell, Poloist Eric Pedley...
Bitterly Virginia's Clifton Woodrum strove, recalled economy pledges, shouted: "How are you going to pay the bill. Are you going to have a tax bill [the House shuddered], or are you going to raise the debt limit and borrow the money? You know as well as I know that the Congress has no idea of doing either one . . . at this session...