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Captain Mahan gave Big Navy men the world over a sales talk wherewith to woo legislators and tax payers. He delved into the histories of nations from Rome to the U. S., came up with his theory that no nation ever became a world power or held its position without a Big Navy. This was a godsend to his contemporaries, who had to deal with the awful fact that so long as the U. S. was content to grow within its mainland boundaries, it did not need and would not have a Big Navy...
...lives in Rome and hobnobs with Signor Mussolini, went to Paris supposedly charged with a secret mission. Before long everyone knew the secret. He called on a Daladier lieutenant, Public Works Minister Anatole de Monzie, and suggested that he tell his boss the time was ripe for Paris to woo Rome. Next day King Vittorio Emmanuele read his mild-as-milk speech before the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations. Day after that France's Ambassador in Rome, Andre François-Poncet, called on Crown Prince Humbert at the Quirinal and chatted 20 minutes...
...courtship of the third President of the U. S. to woo and win in the White House.* began when he met Mrs. Galt, who was brought to the White House one day by the President's Cousin Helen Bones. They had a laugh together over her muddy shoes, his disheveled golf suit. Later she joined the family circle when Woodrow Wilson read aloud, went for automobile rides with him and Miss Bones. Barely two months later when the President proposed marriage, she was so surprised that she blurted: "Oh, you can't love...
Senator's stalest bit of gossip-A President Pitches a Little Woo-was dated February 28, 1844. It related the old story of President John Tyler's below-decks necking with 20-year-old Julia Gardner when a gun blew up on the new U.S.S. Princeton during a trial run on the Potomac, killing Secretary of State Abel Parker Upshur, Secretary of the Navy Thomas Walker Gilmer, Julia Gardner's father and two others. Wooer Tyler married the girl a few months later...
...former from "outside sources." In addition, on the Post, a $5,000-a-week budget cut was begun. Of its 142 editorial employes, twelve were fired-as were 23 of 180 Record editorial employes. The financial pages of both papers were dropped. And Dave Stern, whose papers woo the workingman, cast about for ways to institute a pay cut on the Post, without colliding with A.F. of L. unions in its mechanical departments, or the American Newspaper Guild, whose contract with the Post was the first to be signed in Manhattan. By persuading the A.F. of L. unions...