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...find Mr. MacCracken. He was ordered to keep on trying. Meanwhile the Senate called in the three airway officials who had been kept cooling their heals in a side room under guard of a paunchy Capitol policeman. All that day and all the next Mr. Jurney searched in vain, though Mr. MacCracken's whereabouts were anything but a secret. For several hours he was seated in the office of the clerk of the District of Columbia Supreme Court but Mr. Jurney did not want to look for him there. The fact was that Mr. MacCracken's lawyer, smart...
...they read. Deputies in the Diet shouted that Nakajima who had condoned treachery to the throne was a traitor too. Peers pointed their fingers. Lost in the hubbub were murmurs that Minister Nakajima had been distributing stock in the semi-official Bank of Taiwan below market price. In vain the flustered baron protested that ten years had changed his ideas. Though War Minister Hayashi pooh-poohed the article as "such a small thing," Baron Nakajima had to resign from the Cabinet...
...your news item and the thoroughness with which you try to cover news, my illness was cured very quickly and perhaps I owe my life to your magazine. I have read your magazine thoroughly from your very first publication so you see it has not been read in vain...
...Simonson was careful to keep his exhibition a history of the development of stage design, not a history of the drama. The work of all the best known U. S. designers was represented but, more often than not, settings for their best known plays were lacking. People looked in vain for Robert Edmond Jones's The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife, The Jest, Mourning Becomes Electra; for Bel Geddes' Miracle or Lysistrata; for Jo Mielziner's Street Scene...
...introducing an amendment to the liquor tax bill providing an extra excise on wines & liquors imported from War debt defaulting nations. Leaping at the chance to sound off on their pet hate, debt defaulters. Senate Democrats and Republicans alike began to line up solidly behind the Clark amendment. In vain did Mississippi's Harrison plead with his colleagues not to injure the President...