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Died. Vincent Claude Giblin, 67, onetime Florida mouthpiece for Al Capone, who later served nine tempestuous years as a suddenly crusading Dade County circuit judge, fighting quickie divorces and getting the residence law changed from 90 days to six months, all the while venting his terrible temper ("I'd like to boot her in the fanny!" "You're a pygmy on stilts!") to such an extent that he was finally forced to retire in 1959; of cancer; in Miami...
Even though he knew it was a war game, Hurst nearly lost his temper. "Frankly," he said with sincere asperity, "it's tried our patience. The fundamental problem with the ambassador has been a lack of mutual understanding. He doesn't understand the military problem...
...King & J. P. Morgan. Lord Cromer thus stepped right into a behind-scenes Cabinet hassle over what kind of budget the government should present to Commons in April. Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan reportedly wants to temper spending with a basically deflationary budget, is willing to risk a rise in unemployment; Economics Minister George Brown argues that Britain must proceed with wage rises and welfare spending. For candidly coming out on the side of Callaghan, Lord Cromer earned criticism from both left and right. The Laborite New Statesman lashed him for "calculated political intervention," and the Financial Times faulted...
...flood of gossipy and sometimes penetrating anecdotes. Here is tough-minded Amy Lowell, smoking the cigars that shocked Boston in the early 1920s. As a teenager, Amy wrote in her diary the frank confession, "I am fat, ugly, inconspicuous and dull: to say nothing of a very bad temper." As an adult, she intermittently feared revolution and would declaim at dinner...
Clark's temper continued to be King's greatest asset. Next day, Clark and his deputies arrested for truancy some 160 Negro youngsters peaceably demonstrating outside the courthouse, headed them off toward the edge of town. Selma's jails, said Clark, were already full, so he intended to take the kids to the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge six miles away. Brandishing billy clubs and electric cattle prods, Clark's men forced the children into a quick step and then a trot as Clark bellowed: "You like to march so much...