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Massachusetts' swart little Congressman Joe Martin, who since January 1937 has been Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee, was awaiting only the result of the first Congressional primary of the year in Illinois next week before going into action as the key-man in what may well turn out to be the most significant election battle in his party's history...
...Last Gangster (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) finds swart, satchel-mouthed Edward G. Robinson. Hollywood's personification of the big, bad racketeer, still doing business at the old stand...
...their Brooklyn mosque, which until six years ago was a Tammany clubhouse, before that a Protestant church. Today the clean, shiny mosque looks like a Polish church, decorated in pink, yellow and blue, the Moslem star & crescent festooned with painted roses and daisies. This is natural since its swart, thick-accented Imam, Sam Rafilowich, son of an Imam in a Polish village, is a Polish Tartar, who arrived in the U. S. 29 years ago. Most of his habitual worshippers are also Tartars, descendants of Tamerlane's hordes who entered Russia 600 years ago. But at the joyous feast...
Matthew Woll, Samuel Gompers' short, swart "Crown Prince," a high-tariff Republican who wears wing collars and is as conservative as a life insurance company president, which he is (Union Labor Life). Luxemburg-born, he is more sophisticated than his A. F. of L. colleagues, dislikes Bill Green almost as much as he does John Lewis...
Born in Damascus, made Bishop of Baghdad in 1912, Syrian Dallal in 1926 became spiritual leader of Syrians whose faith is one of Christendom's oldest, who live on the sites of such ancient places as Ur, Nineveh and Babylon. Like his swart, bearded self, many of his flock exhibit in their countenances traces of their Jewish ancestry. Archbishop Dallal will find uncounted Syrian Rite noses in half-a-dozen U. S. cities, particularly Grand Rapids, Mich. and Jacksonville...