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...priorities for defense orders, of unexpected delays in such vital things as production of the Army Air Corps's Allison aircraft engine. But last week he sounded off. The occasion was the National Association of Manufacturers' annual convention; the place was the ballroom of Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria. In Big Bill's audience sat the heads of U. S. industry...
...Christian resistance in Germany both to Germans and the whole world is Pastor Niemoller. A gaunt, blunt, unbending hero of World War I, who won the Iron Cross for his exploits as a submarine commander (he sank 55,000 tons of Allied shipping), he was pastor of the swank Jesus Christus Kirche in Berlin's socialite suburb Dahlem and led the Confessional Synod's attack on Naziism until clapped into jail in July 1937 for "misuse of the pulpit." The court freed him when he came to trial in February 1938, but the Gestapo promptly hustled...
...booked it himself. Arrested last week on a grand larceny charge, he admitted he had kept the policies secret from his company, kept some $8,000 in premiums to apply on a personal budget which included fat sums for social clubs, a new home on Seattle's swank Broadmoor Drive, frequent visits to nearby Longacres race track. After investigation, a Seattle prosecutor concluded that high-living Hal French had held out other policies too, pocketed perhaps as much...
...their pets on their mantelpieces, Sculptress Harrah charges much higher prices than the average bookend and paper weight animal sculptor, gets $200 for a bronze dog, $700 up for a bronze horse. For four years June Harrah has supported herself with her sculpture. She was educated at a swank finishing school, never had any systematic training in art, knows nothing about the work of other sculptors past or present. Says she: "I don't get around much in art; I just do it because I have...
...Japanese bombs had begun raining down last week on the British naval base at Singapore and the adjoining native State of Johore, they would have had no chance of hitting its Sultan. With rare courage for an Oriental potentate, he has insisted upon living in blitzed London. There, at swank Grosvenor House, which puts on one of the flashiest girl shows in the British Isles, the 67-year-old Sultan of Johore spends the sort of life that few 20th-century sultans live outside the sultry cartoons of Esquire. Last week Johore rejoiced in a new houri, the shift being...