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Premier Prince Konoye is a great talker, a great reader (especially Japanese translations of U. S. books), an internationalist, an idealist who believes in the redistribution of property. A bundle of nerves, he is so fussy about hygiene that he sprinkles alcohol on an apple before eating it. He is a devotee of Kabuki, the Japanese dance-drama. He likes wrestling matches but takes no interest in Japanese baseball. Like his son Fumitaka at Princeton he is fond of golf, took it up ten years ago, got his handicap down to nine, then dropped the game. He is ready, however...
...bred, has had a long career on the inside of both labor and politics. Although he looks like a man in his forties, he was already 22 years old when he got a job as a pressman on the Boston Herald 42 years ago. A good backslapper and able talker, he rose to head the local union, was spotted by George L. Berry, president of the International Printing Pressmen's Union, who picked him as an organizer. Berry, who belongs to the school of polished labor leaders, insisted that his organizers dress well and stop at the best hotels...
...that rare type, a bohemian who made good on Broadway. Manhattan-born (1894), he staked his first claims to fame in Chicago, whither, after spurning college and joining a road-show as an acrobat, he went intending to be a violinist, turned newshawk instead. A vehement, ironic and imaginative talker, a writer of the generously promissory sort, he was taken seriously enough by the longhaired to be printed in Margaret Anderson's late Little Review. A collaborator of parts, he wrote several plays with Maxwell Bodenheim, then quarrelled with him resoundingly. In Charles MacArthur he found his perfect complement...
...long as sporting Major Oliver Stanley, younger son of King George's sporting friend the Earl of Derby, remained Minister of Labor there was no interference with this strange monopoly. The new Minister of Labor is bourgeois, Bible-quoting Ernest ("Bashan") Brown, the loudest and fastest talker in the House of Commons. Very quietly last week good Mr. Brown did his duty as he saw it. Grosvenor House and Dorchester House were given two weeks to get rid of their 26 U. S. dancing girls, and a Minister of Labor spokesman explained nothing by frostily explaining: "It has been...
...runs a strong love of the sea which has produced these bold and impetuous characters. Its loose style proves an excellent way in which to bring out the force of the story. Here is an opportunity to see that a successful author and poet can also be a successful talker...