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Once accustomed to writhe at the sickening servility of their Sultans to the Great Powers, Turks were prouder than ever last week of their swart, hard Dictator Gazi ("Victorious One"), Mustafa Kemal Pasha...
Shortly before 3 o'clock one afternoon last week, swart Inquisitor Ferdinand Pecora stepped into the corridor of Washington's squat, ramshackle Federal Trade Commission Building, marched into the office of Commissioner James M. Landis. The first meeting of the new Securities & Exchange Commission was about to be held, a chairman elected. In an office four doors down the corridor waited Commissioners Matthews, Healy and Kennedy. Thirty minutes passed and Mr. Pecora did not join his colleagues to start business. Every few minutes Mr. Landis would step out, glowering darkly, hurry down to the other office to whisper...
...year term went to smart, swart Ferdinand Pecora who drummed up the material which made Exchange Regulation possible. He might have had a longer term, but he would not take it, for he is ambitious...
...Advertising supplies essential information," said the Mayor of New York last week to the National Advertising Federation. No adman who heard the statement was more pleased than swart, cigaret-smoking William Esty whose Manhattan agency prepares and places the advertising for Camel cigarets. Currently the "essential information" Mr. Esty is using to promote the sale of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.'s prime product is the untraditional statement that smoking is healthy...
Enthroned on the epistle side of the altar, the swart Apostolic Delegate looked cool and content. In mitre, gloves, amice, alb and stiff brocaded chasuble, 54-year-old Archbishop Curley perspired heavily but went through the ritual as valiantly as if he had not passed a winter of poor health and fasted 13 hours before the mass. Not so stalwart was many another Catholic in the Stadium. By the time the mass was under way people in the stands were dropping by dozens. By the time Rev. Dr. Peter Keenan Guilday, Catholic University historian, was in the midst...