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...various Blood-Busterfields and other dugout officers fulminating in service clubs against the new order last week could not have the satisfaction of belittling their new Chief of Staff as an upstart. Lord Gort is a sixth Viscount, an old Harrovian, a member of the most exclusive club in the world, the Royal Yacht Squadron, and grandson of famed Robert Smith Surtees, author of the fox hunters' bible Handley Cross. It also happens that he is a professional soldier of great ability, holds the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military decoration...
...Count Mariassy does not mind being called "a political ventriloquist" in public, but he hates having his beer warm and his bath cold. Soon Count Mariassy's Conservatives are swept out; Jean is the coming man. At this point Elissa Landi's hatred of the upstart valet turns out not to be hatred after...
...Janeiro, Presidential spokesmen fastened on the word law, assured all concerned that not a shot would be fired. In Buenos Aires, where Getulio Vargas is a despised Brazilian upstart, the press fastened on the word autonomy, shrieked that Brazil was on the verge of bloody civil war. Upon the commotion then descended the iron Brazilian press censorship which is as thoroughgoing as any in the world. European and U. S. correspondents cabled as little as possible to their editors, judiciously deciding that civil commotion would have to become civil war in fact before it would be worth while to risk...
...lawyer could have told her that she did not have a Chinawoman's chance of getting it. Washington's Minimum Wage Law was no New Deal upstart. It was passed in 1913. About the same time Oregon passed a similar law. Oregon's law ' was tested in the Courts. The Supreme Court approved it in 1917 by a 4-4 vote, Justice Louis Brandeis (who had helped prepare briefs in the case before his appointment to the Court) not voting. Six years later another minimum wage law passed by Congress for the District of Columbia came...
...World's Best Paid Male Chorus,"* spoke volumes. It meant that, at the end of four years of absolute power granted him originally by the German Reichstag, freely elected (TIME, April 3, 1933), Adolf Hitler is seen by all Europe as a portentous figure, no longer an upstart but a German Chancellor of almost Bismarckian stature, a figure clothed with the aura as well as the fact of Power. Thus Der Führer was recently painted in what is today his favorite portrait (see cut). Up went the Opera House curtain in Berlin last week, and the world...