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With relief the committee then turned from these disagreeable reminders to listen to the voice of experience, that of Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch, World War I defense tsar. Baruch's testimony had been advertised as a thwacking assault on the bill. Several committeemen hoped this would include a few attacks on Henderson. But tall, silver-haired Bernard Baruch had nothing to say against Henderson; he paid him tribute, called him "Brother...
...years after he became Tsar, Peter began to woo the sea. He learned on a Russian lake how to trim a sheet and ease a tiller. Later he went to Holland disguised as Peter Mikhailov, able-bodied seaman, there took a job in shipyards and learned how to warp gnarled oak into clean ship shape with his own hands. He learned navigation, piloting, naval tactics...
...years N.B.A. have-nots have been sniping at Mike Jacobs. Last year they persuaded Maryland Representative Ambrose J. Kennedy to introduce into Congress a bill investigating Jacobs' boxing monopoly. The bill bogged down. So, in all likelihood, will the "war to the finish." No one can deny that Tsar Jacobs, shrewd and well-heeled, has cornered the market on rising prizefighters. But he has also kept (as boxing cleanliness goes) a clean nose...
Still Brooklyn's front office remembering what happened in 1930 when the Dodgers tumbled from first to fourth place in the season's last twelve days, refused to print World Series tickets. Equally skeptical was Baseball Tsar Judge Landis. Calling a meeting, he set a date for a two-out-of-three-game play-off series (postponing, if necessary, the opening date of the World Series), should Brooklyn and St. Louis come down to the wire (Sept. 28) in a photo finish...
...whose existence, form, and mode of action," he wrote, "have been strengthened and sanctioned over a long period of years, I might even say over a period of centuries." In France this meant the Bourbons. And having come to this conclusion, Talleyrand deserted Napoleon, risked his life to urge Tsar Alexander I to restore the French monarchy...