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Promptly Filipinos held a mass meeting in San Francisco, passed a resolution denouncing this description of them as savages, sent a copy to Quintin Paredes, Philippine Resident Commissioner in Washington. Before the Philippine Commonwealth was set up Commissioner Paredes, short, swart, swank, suave and banjo-eyed, was Speaker of the Insular House of Representatives and one of the Islands' leading politicians. When Manuel Quezon became the first Philippine President, he made it plain that he would brook no rivals in political power. The once-powerful Speakership was reduced to an office of no importance, and able...
Residents of Philadelphia's swank Bellevue-Stratford Hotel were agitated last week by what was going on in the ballroom. Some 200 young people, clad in sweat shirts and flannel slacks, kept popping in & out of it at odd hours. They carried funny-looking little paddles. From the ballroom came the sounds of what seemed to be some sort of scuffle...
...wife and three children immured in a Welsh castle at Amroth. he gives stag parties for the great at his farm at East Garston in Berkshire, in rebuilding which he hired only local people, becoming the village's chief support and eventually Master of Foxhounds of its swank Craven Hunt and president of the Hungerford Fat Stock Show. In neither of these squirely retreats did he discuss his third life as a concession-wangler among Eastern potentates whose Oriental courage and vanity genuinely attract him and whom he, like the late great T. E. Lawrence, genuinely impresses...
...sort of violence." She says she cannot help putting people in her landscapes or painting a sky red if she feels like it. Born 32 years ago to a merchant-banker in Aledo, Ill., Doris was brought up to be an "outdoorsy" gentlewoman. She went to a swank school in Lake Forest, majored in philosophy at Rockford College, became student art instructor, married a chemical engineer named Russell Werner Lee. In Paris she got pointers from André L'Hôte, in Kansas City from Ernest Lawson and the late Anthony Angorola, in San Francisco from Arnold Blanch...
...dress manufacturers and affiliates in the textile and coat & suit trades, has been developing for months. It came to a head recently in a series of incidents which retailers considered a highhanded abuse of the Guild's position. One day last month at Strawbridge & Clothier's, swank Philadelphia department store, a Guild investigator became quietly uppish. She demanded that a certain dress, in her opinion a copy, be removed from the floor and that she be told the name of the manufacturer. Its managers knew they had an agreement with the Guild, but they understood that the agreement...