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Something about the affair smelled fishy. Handsome, taciturn Acting President Ramon S. Castillo was having trouble with his legislators. Last week he was anxious to get a new budget passed, a proposal loan of $110,000,000 from the U.S. approved. But the Radical majority of the Chamber of Deputies would not hear of it until he assured them that this winter's Buenos Aires provincial elections (for 42 out of 158 Chamber seats) would be held under Federal, not provincial, law. This would put an end to a long-established system of election fraud by which Acting President...
...office, President Roosevelt has picked moderately big names for SECommissioners. Last week he changed that policy. To fill the vacancy created when Jerome Frank became a Federal judge, he chose an SEC career man, scarcely known at all outside Washington and Wall Street: tall, calm, taciturn, young (36) Ganson Purcell...
...minutes before 9 p.m. The officers talking with Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham did not even smoke: the whole fleet was blacked out. Sir Andrew-who is brusque and taciturn even in relaxation-spoke only in brief outbursts of instruction...
...bright Florida sunshine last week the lean, taciturn ex-open champion armored himself against his old opponent. Bucking tough competition in St. Petersburg's $5,000 open tournament, he wore a cap pulled down over his eyes. It didn't help: he finished out of the big money. Ruefully observing that a tournament golfer might add five years to his business career if he could keep out of the sun, Golfer Nelson pointed disgustedly to his bushy brows, said: "Notice how large those muscles are? That's from squinting...
...uses on the air are a few scribbled notes on a sheet of yellow paper. In her six years on the air, she has received over a million letters. Folksiest broadcast she ever made involved her redheaded nephew on the occasion of his first birthday. The nephew proved taciturn and Miss McBride, to convince her listeners that he was really there, kept murmuring, "Say 'Goo,' baby, say 'Goo.' " After listening to Miss McBride for almost 45 minutes, the baby finally gave in. "Goo," he said...