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...that he organized a private detective force to keep the Interior Department toeing the mark. He balefully noted that Harry Hopkins, then the WPAdministrator, "is intolerant and impetuous" and is "playing the game of a desperate gambler." Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins talked at Cabinet meetings "in a perfect torrent, almost without pausing to take breath, as if she feared . . someone [would] break in on her." He felt it "little short of impertinent" for Mrs. Roosevelt to dabble in public housing, and added: "Soon I will expect Sistie and Buzzy [Roosevelt grandchildren] to be issuing orders to members...
...kingdom provided riches out of the Arabian nights, some from the duties leveled on the annual torrent of Mohammedan pilgrims to Holy Mecca, but mostly from the vast oil deposits which the King leased to U.S. oil companies on a 50-50 basis. His present share: $200 million a year. A strict Moslem, who forbade smoking, drinking and even non-Moslem churches among the foreigners who came to draw his oil, he nevertheless took to modern inventions like a child let loose in Toyland, eventually had his palaces festooned with telephones and radios, his courtyards teeming with fleets of automobiles...
Just how much resting energetic India will do is in doubt. Still vice chairman of the National Committee, she has five speaking engagements on her way to the coast, and as Husband Herbert (her third) once said: "She is a rushing mountain torrent. She's so intense that when she has to rest, she wears herself out with the intensity of resting...
...Gardner patched up their lovers' spat in his mother's New Jersey home. Later, when Ava caught Frankie's act at a Jersey nightclub, the New York Journal-American was pleased to report: "As their glances locked, thunder boomed and lightning flashed . . . The Voice unleashed a torrent of sound at the sultry Ava. Emotion poured from him like molten lava...
...which winds with the Arkansas' west bank. Across the river, on the twisting tracks of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, photographers climbed aboard handcars. At one-minute intervals the boatmen began shoving off from Big Bend, five miles north of Salida, into the chilly (52° F.) torrent. The first big test, Bear Creek Rapids, which a week earlier dashed a boatman to death, lived up to its bad reputation by capsizing the first starter. Soon Theo Bock lost his lead to France's Roger Paris, who kept his kayak ahead for 15 miles until...