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...Cover) Into the grey Elysee Palace-home in other historic times of Madame de Pompadour, Napoleon I, Tsar Alexander I, the Duke of Wellington, Napoleon III; home now of gentle President Albert Le-brun-strode a onetime Premier of France one morning last week: Pierre Laval, fresh from Rome. M. Laval was grave. He reported to President Lebrun that there was nothing to be hoped for from the hungry Italians. If anyone could wring concessions from Rome, it should have been the realistic co-author of the ill-fated Hoare-Laval Ethiopian Deal; but he might as well have tried...
...London to help run his. dock and transport workers' union, formed in 1911. Rough-tongued old Ben manned the hustings, but Ernie's organizing, policy-planning and negotiating made the Transport and General Workers' Union Britain's biggest, and Ernest Bevin as its tsar the most potent individual outside the Government at the start of World...
...tsar has lost his head as yet in World War II, but Adolf Hitler has already taken four royal capitals and threatened several more. From the agitated monarchy front came the following news last week: > Too preoccupied with her frontier watch, Rumania failed to mark a historic anniversary. Ten years ago a Rumanian Army plane brought Carol of Hohenzollern back from exile. Since then Carol II has learned well the trade of Balkan king, burnished his capital with western splendor, and stuck to his grandfather's policy of trusting no one. Last week King Carol prudently passed up anniversary...
Brown (Pullman Porters and Maids Protective Association), Dave Beck (Teamsters' Union tsar, and force-extraordinary in Seattle politics). Said one hopeful MRA missionary: "If MRA can convince a man like Beck, it may do the same for Hitler...
...heard of it. Last fortnight the Shanty was raided and closed; the Paddock was not bothered. Word went about that Bob Berryman had talked with the sheriff, but the sheriff denied it. A second-string gambler and gorilla named John Phillips blustered that Bob Berryman was trying to be tsar of gaming in Memphis and environs. One night last week Bob Berryman chased John Phillips into a Memphis cafe, felled him with three shotgun charges and four bullets from a snub-nosed Colt. "It was over the night clubs down in Mississippi." moaned dying John Phillips. Holy...