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...elected to the New York State Legislature. From his freshman term he specialized in problems of labor and industrial relations (he was co-founder and-for 1½years-dean of the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell). Offstage he was a convivial Young Turk who enlivened one party convention by parading through a hotel overturning beds and occupants (in 1936 he swore off drinking). After 16 conscientious years in Albany (including terms as majority leader and Speaker of the Assembly), Ives decided to try national politics. In 1946, he ran against formidable ex-Governor...
...agricultural implements and talking grandly (though also vaguely) of delivery dates and competitive prices. They were courteous as could be. "After all," explained a Red trade weekly, "politeness and hospitality have nothing to do with capitalist customs. Both were practiced in the ancient days." At Izmir, record crowds of Turks were enticed by shiny Russian goods and a natural curiosity about their hated neighbors. A Turk examined a Russian automobile, turned to his companion and said: "They, like us, also came back from nowhere. Now look at what those unmentionables have achieved...
...airport, there followed 90 minutes of coffee and other nonalcoholic beverages, then up into the air soared the plane load of Red pilgrims, looking, said one Turk, "more like seasoned actors on a tour than believers going to the holy city...
...found it easy to cash in on this vast and uncritical acceptance. NBC, which he now hates as the captive Grecian maiden hated the mustachioed Turk, refuses to pay more than a niggling $28,000 a program, although the network extracts a total of $3,000,000 annually from the show's sponsors (biggest contributor: Chesterfield). A few months ago, however, Webb finally found a way out of this financial dilemma; to the Music Corp. of America last year he sold the rights to 100 completed Dragnets and to 95 more which will be filmed in the future...
...only would Roussel be paid in gold for an honest day's slaughter. There was always the chance that he could hack away a chunk of territory from the Turk and rule it himself under the Emperor. Roussel's wife Matilda, a forceful battle-ax from Lombardy, endorsed the idea. Like most mothers, she was thinking of her children's future and her own too, and there was not much future with a hus band who fought...