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...questioned was the chambermaid who served him early morning tea in his hotel room. "How's the war going?" Mr. Willkie asked. Said she: "Of course we're going to win but I think we'd like a little more help from America." To the waiter at breakfast he shot the same question, got much the same answer...
...Japanese. In his character were the seeds of present-day Japan. A story is told that one day in his youth in Paris he was drinking in a bistro. Spirits ran high. Accidentally he broke a window. A French waiter grew angry and told him to pay up. Kimmochi Saionji, gentleman of Japan, broke several more windows in the place, paid for them all. Then he haughtily commanded the waiter to wrap up the pieces of glass in a package, took the package under his arm and stalked out, head high...
...escape to Vienna, where he wrote for Pravda; Balkan war correspondence from Constantinople in 1913; more plotting in Zurich and Paris; expulsion from France in 1916; Spain and ten weeks in the U. S., where he played in My Official Wife with Clara Kimball Young, worked as a waiter in a restaurant on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue, edited a Bronx newspaper; his return to Russia after the March Revolution of 1917, where he joined Lenin, helped to stage the October Revolution, conducted the Brest-Litovsk peace negotiations with Germany. Because it seemed a major point of proletarian protocol...
...some cities and towns he is featured as the "Common Sense in Government" candidate. In his home town. Gary, his campaign literature advertises "Our Teddy." In the large colored district of industrial Gary, colored newspapers have played him up as a "worker." He has spent summers working as a waiter, a farm hand, and a truck driver...
Eventually Schafer and White took over the kitchen and have restored order and quality; Schafer himself serves as head-waiter at breakfast