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...Robbie") Robinson. The President vetoed a bill to validate old payments to the three for excess traveling expenses in 1933-34. Unless the Senate overrides the veto the General owes the Government $1,868.61, the Major $3,335, Robbie, $57.19 ∙∙ Bird-wise Quiz Kid Gerard Darrow wept remorsefully as he taxied to an Audubon Society meeting in Chicago, where he knew he would meet Columnist John Kieran, Information Pleaser. Nine-year-old Gerard, who wrote a scathing review of Kieran's Nature Notes (TIME, April 14), took it all back, said he really thought the book...
...there was a difference. The annual day-long parade had more zip, more color, more of a grim military note. Men gathered in hundreds to sing God Bless America, and some of them wept. From the sidewalks they shouted "To hell with Hitler." The spirit was the old spirit: "What son-of-a-bitch, or combination of sonsofbitches, thinks he can lick us?" World War II had wrought a great change. Legion membership rose 20,000 in 1939; 25,000 more in 1940; 30,000 more this year...
...married four times: "I wouldn't give much for him if he didn't. After all, he's a normal young man and he has been separated from his wife for eight months. He wouldn't be a son of mine if he stopped living." Wept crocodile Hearstling Cholly Knickerbock er: "What a pity that we are to be treated to the ugly spectacle of another Vanderbilt divorce in times such as these." No weeper, Mother Margaret talked on & on to reporters about "life" (sex): "If you've stopped loving a person, you have...
...Congressional Record recorded the debate. The bill raised tariff rates on more than 650 articles, some of them to the highest level in U.S. history. As the bill passed, a Tennessee Congressman named Cordell Hull, famed for his persistent 23-year-long losing fight for freedom of trade, wept...
...sportswriters, the most sentimental members of a notoriously softhearted craft, have blubbered over many a death before. Fortnight ago they had even wept a bit for Max Schmeling, till he turned out to be alive. But last week's outburst was an emotional flood the likes of which few oldtimers could remember. Only attempt to keep his feet in the pool of tears was made by onetime Sportswriter Westbrook ("Old Nasty") Pegler. Wrote he in the New York World-Telegram...