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This was the company that Huey joined. The Marine Band played solemnly in the warm afternoon. Two-by-two, 18 Senators marched to the velvet-roped enclosure where Huey's statue, concealed behind a flag, stood in its place between William Jennings Bryan and "Old Bob" La Follette. About 250 spectators, mostly tourists passing through, stopped to see what was going...
...Garden of Eden!" Here she wears costumes (by the English house of Motley) inspired by the paintings of the late Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931), the "Master of Swish" whose society portraits had an even glossier Edwardian swank than those of John Singer Sargent. Simply by appearing in a blue velvet period gown, with a swooping hat crowned by an exotic bird and delicately moored in place by a face veil, Cornell stops the show...
Recent threats and inducements of Hit ler's velvet-voiced diplomat. Ambassador Franz von Papen, had failed to impress Turkey's astute little President. Ismet Inonii. Asked how he had managed to withstand the foremost Nazi pressure ex pert, the President declared: "Allah be praised, I am deaf." Not deaf was Tur key's leader to less polished but meatier promises of British Ambassador Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen. Last week his country firmly snubbed the Axis by signing a comprehensive economic agreement with Britain. By her sharp barter tactics Germany had corralled 54% of Turkey...
President Roosevelt had the power (by Act of Congress) to enforce Henry Stimson's dictum. Last week the President put on his velvet gloves, said he did not expect to have to use the power. This week the airline operators fell into line, agreed to turn over to the military services all the recently delivered engines that they could spare, further promised to relinquish $7,500,000 worth of equipment on order...
...compounded like doctors' prescriptions to minute specifications. This year, capacity operations in such industries as automobile, machine-tool, chemical and electrical-equipment makers, plus the aircraft and arsenal boom, are making a seller's market for high-cost alloy steels. To Allegheny-Ludlum went all the velvet, none of the worry...