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...before the Treasury Bar. He advised the conventionites to oust voluntarily from their association out-&-out crooks, over-sharp connivers and boasters of special influence. To hammer home a point that has made a bad smell in Washington for many a year, he sent to the Bar convention his youngish assistant general counsel, Robert Houghwout Jackson...
Marguerite A. ("Missy") Le Hand, youngish, grey-haired private secretary to Franklin D. Roosevelt for the past 14 years, celebrated the beginning of her first extended vacation in four years by slipping into a bright plaid dress and boarding the S. S. Manhattan for Europe. With her on the six-week trip went Grace Tully, stenographer to the President. Said Private Secretary Le Hand : "There are lots of things I never know about until I see them in the newspapers...
...priest reading on the observation platform of ST. PETER he asked: "Can you use an altar boy?" Yes, Rev. Cornelius Edward Murphy could. Next morning at mass he employed the services of the first moppet, who had sent his small brother to negotiate the job. This week Father Murphy, youngish Roman Catholic priest, was to take ST. PETER to other Long Island towns, celebrating mass on railroad sidings for all who cared to come. Then he would travel with his Pullman chapel through New England. All this was to publicize, and raise money for, his missionary work in North Carolina...
...Government made a martyr of Ramon Grau San Martin last January when "garage diplomacy," initiated by U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles, forced him to end his four-month regime in resignation. The youngish (49) bachelor surgeon moped off to Mexico City and exile. His successor as Provisional President, Carlos Mendieta, has played a smart and liberal game but has not erased the memory of martyred Grau from the minds of Cuba's lower classes. Still practically ungovernable, they believe in Grau. Last week 100,000 of them, students, workmen, Negroes, sailors, swarmed around the docks in Havana Harbor...
...bullied into reform or else the delegation of Italy as well as that of Germany and Japan will be missing from Geneva. Coming as an anti-climax to the recent flood of nationalistic out-bursts, Italy's cry seems too obviously a bid to be heard, a youngish boast of a rising power henceforth to be reckoned with by the other big powers. But reform of the League of Nations' covenant is and has been an urgent necessity for a decade. If Germany and Italy can manipulate France into a conciliatory mood, these reforms might be effected. France, however...