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cbc.ca Senators decline to label China's treatment of Uyghurs a genocide Brennan MacDonald 4 hrs ago 131 Comments | 84 CORRECTED-Nikkei erases early gains as markets fret over Delta virus variant Britain's Dixons Carphone profits rise 34% on online strength a close up of a person wearing a mask: A masked demonstrator attends a protest denouncing China's treatment of Uyghur Muslims in front of the Chinese consulate in Istanbul, on July 5, 2018. Canadian senators on Tuesday voted down a motion to label China's treatment of the Uyghurs as a genocide.© Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images A masked demonstrator attends a protest denouncing China's treatment of Uyghur Muslims in front of the Chinese consulate in Istanbul, on July 5, 2018. Canadian senators on Tuesday voted down a motion to label China's treatment of… Senators declined to label China's treatment of its Muslim minority Uyghur population as a genocide Tuesday evening. A motion brought forward by Sen. Leo Housakos called on the Senate to recognize that a genocide is currently being carried out against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims. Twenty-nine senators voted in favour of the motion, 33 senators voted against and 13 abstained. The motion also called upon the International Olympic Committee to move the 2022 Olympic Games out of China should the Chinese government continue to perpetrate a "genocide." The vote in the Senate follows on a similar vote in the House in February which saw a substantial majority of MPs — including most of the Liberals who participated — vote in favour of labelling China's treatment of the Uyghurs as genocide. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and almost all of his cabinet colleagues were absent for that vote. Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau was the only cabinet minister present. He abstained when it was his turn to vote, saying he did so "on behalf of the government of Canada." Trudeau and his government have been reluctant to use the word genocide to describe China's treatment of the Uyghurs, arguing that more evidence from independent investigations is needed. Canada has led an international effort calling on China to allow a UN investigative team "meaningful and unfettered access" to Xinjiang, the region of China where human rights violations allegedly are taking place. During debate on the motion, Independent Senators Group Leader Sen. Yuen Pau Woo said Canada should avoid criticizing China over its treatment of Uyghur Muslims because our country has mistreated Indigenous peoples. Video: Canada leading global push to investigate China’s treatment of Uyghurs (cbc.ca) Pause Current Time 0:04 / Duration 2:30 Unmute 0 LQ CaptionsFullscreen Canada leading global push to investigate China’s treatment of Uyghurs Click to expand Echoing an argument made by Chinese officials at the UN last week, Woo said China's policy toward the Muslim minority in Xinjiang province is similar to the colonialism directed at Indigenous peoples in this country, and that condemning Beijing in harsh terms would be hypocritical and "simply an exercise in labelling." Sen. Peter Boehm, who chairs the Senate foreign affairs committee, also opposed the motion, but for different reasons than those articulated by Woo. Boehm argued that the House vote which labelled China's treatment of its Uyghur population a genocide had "no discernible impact" and that he believes strongly that foreign policy actions fall under the purview of the executive branch of government — the prime minister and cabinet. "The complexities of a bilateral relationship that is fraught, as is the case between China and Canada today, cannot be boiled down into a few paragraphs of what passes for megaphone parliamentary diplomacy by copying a motion from the other place [House] of almost four months ago that had no discernible impact other than to spark an angry reaction from the Chinese government, which passage of this motion will probably do as well," said Boehm. "Effective diplomacy must weigh words carefully, and parliamentary diplomacy or motions in this chamber, as I see them, should be no different. Foreign policy is not binary. It is all about the shades of grey. This motion, in my view, will not advance the importance of addressing the situation in western China, nor will it contribute to resolving or alleviating an already fraught and complex relationship that we now have." Housakos said it was not about compelling China to do one thing or another. "The people of Xinjiang and the Uyghur people require solidarity, like our allies around the world have expressed that solidarity — the Senate of the United States, the House of Commons of the U.K., the Parliament of Australia — and we should follow suit as a strong democracy and stand up in support of that solidarity," said Housakos during debate. "The authoritarian state of China is committing these atrocities, these crimes against humanity, with impunity. They're arrogant in their blatant disregard for human life and human rights, and we must not allow it to go unchecked and unnamed for what it is." China has detained an estimated one million to two million Uyghurs in what the government calls "re-education centres." An independent legal analysis released earlier this year by the Montreal-based Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights and a Washington-based think-tank concluded that China is committing an ongoing genocide against its Muslim minority population in Xinjiang. The report concluded that the Chinese government's actions in Xinjiang have violated every single act prohibited by the United Nations Genocide Convention. A number of Canadian human rights experts contributed to the report, including former cabinet ministers Lloyd Axworthy, Allan Rock and Irwin Cotler, as well as former ambassador to the UN Yves Fortier. Following the release of this report, retired lieutenant general Roméo Dallaire, who previously served as a senator, urged Ottawa in March to act in response to the "genocide" being committed by the Chinese government. Dallaire led the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide there.

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Alleghany Corporation Address: 375 Park Avenue New York, New York 10152 U.S.A. Telephone: (212) 752-1356 Fax: (212) 759-8149 Statistics: Public Company Incorporated: 1929 Employees: 2,132 Sales: $576.9 million (2002) Stock Exchanges: New York Ticker Symbol: Y NAIC: 524127 Direct Title Insurance Carriers; 524126 Direct Property and Casualty Insurance Carriers; 212399 All Other Nonmetallic Mineral Mining; 531210 Offices of Real Estate Agents and Brokers; 421710 Hardware Wholesalers Company Perspectives: Alleghany intends to continue to expand its operations through internal growth at its subsidiaries as well as through possible operating-company acquisitions and investments. Key Dates: 1929: The Van Sweringen brothers establish Alleghany as a holding company for their railroad investments. 1934: Control of the company passes to J.P. Morgan and others. 1937: Robert R. Young--funded in part by Allan P. Kirby--acquires Alleghany. 1949: An interest in Investors Diversified Services Inc. (IDS) is acquired. 1966: The firm sells most of its shares in New York Central. 1984: IDS is sold in an $800 million deal; Alleghany Financial Corporation is formed. 1986: The company begins a liquidation process; Alleghany Financial is renamed Alleghany Corporation. 1998: Alleghany spins off Chicago Title Corporation. 2001: Alleghany Underwriting is sold to Talbot Holdings Ltd.; Alleghany Asset Management Inc. merges with an ABN AMRO subsidiary. 2002: Alleghany acquires Capitol Transamerica. Company History: Alleghany Corporation operates as a diversified conglomerate with holdings related to insurance, industrial minerals, and steel fasteners. Three major subsidiaries--Alleghany Insurance Holdings LLC, Capitol Transamerica Corporation, and Platte River Insurance Company--oversee the company's interests in property, casualty, fidelity, and surety insurance. Alleghany's industrial minerals arm includes World Minerals Inc., Celite Corporation, and Harborlite Corporation. The Heads & Threads International LLC unit is responsible for steel fastener importing and distribution. Alleghany also owns and manages real estate in California through its Alleghany Properties Inc. subsidiary. Origins Alleghany was founded in 1929 by the well-known and eccentric Van Sweringen brothers of Cleveland as a holding company for their railroad investments. When Alleghany slid into receivership in 1934, control of the company passed to J.P. Morgan and others. Shares of the company floated around among a few different parties for the next few years, eventually landing in the hands of George Ball, of Ball Jar fame. Wheeler-dealer Robert R. Young bought the stock from Ball in 1937. Most of the money Young used to acquire controlling interest in Alleghany was put up by Allan P. Kirby, Fred's son. Young became chairman of Alleghany, while Kirby remained behind the scenes as his silent partner. The centerpiece of the extensive but struggling Alleghany empire was its two million plus shares of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. Young spent his first few years at Alleghany whittling down the company's massive debt and untangling its gnarled finances. A legal victory against Ball provided much of the desperately needed cash for the task, and eventually Alleghany's books were in order. Under Young, the Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) underwent something of a facelift. Equipment was modernized and many new conveniences were introduced in its passenger service. In 1945, Young decided to go after another railroad, the New York Central. That year, he purchased 225,400 shares of the Central for $4.2 million. Two years later, more shares were acquired. Initially, Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) regulations prevented Alleghany from taking control of additional railroads. Several years of maneuvering followed, including the sale of most of Alleghany's C&O stock to associates. Young finally managed to wrest control of the New York Central away from its bank-dominated board of directors in a hotly contested proxy battle in 1954. Meanwhile, Alleghany was transforming itself from strictly a railroad force into a financial force as well. In 1949, the company purchased controlling interest in Investors Diversified Services, Inc. (IDS), the world's largest mutual fund group. At the same time Young was purging the Alleghany portfolio of dozens of unwanted holdings. From 66 different securities in 1947, the company pared its collection down to less than ten a decade later. By 1957, Alleghany's investments consisted primarily of a "big four": the New York Central, now the company's main railroad project; IDS, in which Alleghany still maintained a strong position although actual control had been sold to Texan Clint Murchison, a longtime Young accomplice; the Missouri Pacific Railroad, a holdover from the Van Sweringen empire that had lingered in bankruptcy for decades; and Webb & Knapp, a real estate firm. The Kirby Reign Begins in 1958 In 1958, Young committed suicide. Business had taken a severe turn for the worse, and some speculated that Young was depressed over the possibility of his company's collapse. Whether or not Alleghany's condition was on Young's mind was never determined. Consequently, the publicity-shy Kirby was forced out of the shadows. He took over as chairman, president, and undisputed leader of Alleghany. The contrast between the two men could not have been more stark. While Young was a flamboyant operator, fond of speaking out in the press about almost anything, Kirby relished his role as silent partner. His style of doing business did not require much in the way of public exposure. Under Kirby's guidance, Alleghany's fortunes reversed again, and by the end of the 1950s the company had returned to health. Kirby, unlike Young, was willing to delegate day-to-day operations to others, and the companies in the Alleghany fold responded positively to this new leadership approach. IDS started performing particularly well. With nearly $3 billion under management, IDS reported net income of $12.7 million in 1958, earning $1.4 million in dividends for Alleghany. It was quite possibly already the world's largest investment management company by that time. In 1959, Kirby faced his first challenge for control of Alleghany. That year, Boston real estate speculator Abraham Sonnabend began picking up Alleghany stock in large chunks. He also managed to gain the support of Alleghany vice-president David Wallace, a close friend of Young's. Kirby responded by firing Wallace, which alienated Young's widow, also a major stockholder. Kirby emerged from the skirmish with his control of the company intact, but it was the first sign that his grip on Alleghany was vulnerable. In his next proxy fight, Kirby was not as successful. In 1961, he lost control of Alleghany to the Murchison brothers, Clint Jr. and John, the sons of Young's former ally. At the heart of the struggle was a philosophical clash. The Murchisons were freewheeling businessmen in the Texas tradition, while Kirby conducted his affairs with an extreme degree of caution. The brothers managed to convince many shareholders that Kirby's conservatism was holding the company back, eventually gaining enough support to oust him from power. This proved to be a short-lived victory, however. With 35 percent of Alleghany still in hand, Kirby was able to block all of the Murchisons' attempts to overhaul the company. By 1962, they were ready to give up. John Murchison resigned as president of Alleghany and was replaced by Minneapolis businessman Bertin Gamble, to whom the brothers sold much of their Alleghany stock at a loss. Gamble had sold his controlling interest in IDS to Alleghany 13 years earlier, just before its stock began to skyrocket. Like his associates the Murchisons, Gamble was also unable to work with Kirby, and in 1963 controlling interest in Alleghany was sold back to Kirby and his allies. Kirby now owned 43 percent of Alleghany's common stock, and another 16 percent belonged to his associated and friends. Kirby returned to the position of chairman, and longtime associate Charles Ireland was named company president. Control of the company has remained firmly in the hands of the Kirby family ever since. In 1965, Fred Kirby II, Allan's son, was elected chairman of the IDS executive committee. Fred continued serving as executive vice-president of Alleghany, a position he had held since his father's return to power two years earlier. The company sold most of its shares of the New York Central in 1966, marking the end of its railroad-controlling era. In 1967, Alleghany won another legal battle, preventing a reorganization plan from taking place at Missouri Pacific that would have severely diluted Alleghany's holdings in that company. Later that year, the elder Kirby suffered a major stroke. Fred II and his brother, Allan Jr., were named guardians for their father, by then generally acknowledged to be one of the richest men in America, and Fred took over as chairman of Alleghany. After years as Alleghany's principal legal tactician, Ireland left the company in 1968 to take a job at International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, on whose board he had sat as Alleghany's representative since 1965. In 1970, Alleghany acquired Jones Motor Company, a motor carrier of modest size. This was done primarily in order to avoid being reclassified as a personal holding company by the Internal Revenue Service. Jones never performed as hoped, and it was sold off in 1982. Diversification and Strategic Changes: 1970s-80s Despite its legal classification, by 1974 Alleghany was for all practical purposes the family holding company of the Kirby family, who now held nearly half of the company's stock. That year, Alleghany took a major step in its attempt to transform itself into more of an asset management company. First, the legal wrangling over reorganization of the Missouri Pacific finally ended for good, with Alleghany trading in its shares for $42 million in cash and $7.2 million more in new common stock. Alleghany then purchased MSL Industries, a metals fabricating company, using cash from the Missouri Pacific deal. Alleghany's other involvements around this time included its 44 percent interest in IDS; a $15.5 million investment in Court House Square, a real estate development in Denver; and its holdings in Missouri Pacific, TI Corporation, USM, Pittston Company, and United Corporation. Further cautious attempts to diversify peppered the remainder of the 1970s, with as many assets shed as added. Alleghany's last batch of Missouri Pacific shares was sold to Mississippi River Corporation in 1975. The following year, the company sold its Court House Square property for cash and acquired Allied Structural Steel Company. In 1979, Alleghany paid $198 million for the 45 percent of IDS it did not already own. By 1981, 95 percent of Alleghany's income was coming from the investment business. IDS had $6 billion worth of mutual funds under management and $11 billion of life insurance (hawked by the same 3,400-person sales team) in force. In September of that year, the company sold off the IDS Center building in Minneapolis to a Canadian development company for about $200 million, producing a huge capital gain. Another investment management company, New York's Gray, Seifert and Company, was acquired in 1983. Alleghany undertook a major and more rapid shift in strategy in the mid-1980s. In January 1984, the company consummated a blockbuster deal initiated the previous summer in which IDS was sold to American Express Company for $800 million in cash and securities. When Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) went up for sale, Kirby put in a bid to go back into the rail business using the proceeds for the IDS transaction. Instead, the government took Conrail public, and Alleghany's focus turned toward the title insurance business. Toward the end of 1984, Alleghany Financial Corporation was formed as a wholly owned subsidiary for acquiring insurance and other financial oriented concerns. Its most important acquisition in that area came in 1985, with the purchase of Chicago Title and Trust Company from Lincoln National Corporation for $60 million in cash and a six-year $68 million note. Two more insurance moves followed in the next two years. In 1986, the company acquired Shelby Insurance Company for $40 million. SAFECO Title Insurance Company, later renamed Security Union Title Insurance Company, was purchased by the Chicago Title subsidiary the following year. The acquisitions of Chicago Title and Security Union made Alleghany the nation's leading title insurance outfit, while Shelby gave the company entry into the property and casualty insurance arena. Meanwhile, Alleghany shareholders approved a plan for liquidating the company in December of 1986. Under the terms of the plan, most of the company's nonfinancial holdings would be disposed of, and the surviving Alleghany Financial subsidiary would be renamed Alleghany Corporation. Shareholders would receive $41 cash and a share of new Alleghany Corporation stock for each old Alleghany share. One of the first things to go was most of the company's substantial holding in American Express, acquired in the IDS deal. Among Alleghany's other 1987 deals was the June acquisition of the steel and nonresidential construction business of Cyclops Corporation from Dixons Group plc of London. These businesses were then immediately spun off to Alleghany stockholders as a new public company, Cyclops Industries Inc. Acquisitions Continue: Late 1980s-Early 1990s Alleghany initiated a new round of acquisitions beginning in 1989. That year the company acquired Sacramento Savings & Loan Association and two associated companies for $150 million in cash. By the end of 1992, Sacramento Savings had total assets of $2.8 billion, and deposits of $2.6 billion. In March 1991, Chicago Title acquired Ticor Title Insurance Company, a California operation that expanded Alleghany's reach in that business. Later that year, Alleghany purchased Celite Corporation, Manville Corporation's filtration and industrial minerals business, for $144 million. Shelby Insurance Company, Alleghany's property, casualty, life, and annuity subsidiary, was sold to The Associated Group for cash at the end of 1991. For 1991, Alleghany had net income of $64 million on $1.42 billion in revenue. Fred Kirby II stepped down as chief executive officer of Alleghany in 1992 at the age of 72. He retained his position as chairman of the board, as well as an active voice in company affairs. Kirby's hand-picked replacement as CEO was John Burns, Jr., who had been with the company since 1968 and served as president since 1977. Burns was the first CEO at Alleghany from outside the Kirby family since 1957. In the early 1990s, Alleghany increased its participation in both the insurance and minerals industries. In November 1992, the company acquired Harborlite Corporation, a producer of the volcanic material perlite. Underwriters Reinsurance Company was purchased in 1993. Like his father, Fred Kirby II was about as secretive about business as the head of a public corporation can be. The Institutional Voting Research Service in Belmont, Massachusetts once called Alleghany "the most heavily insulated company we have ever analyzed." The company has been historically mistrustful of the press and not at all eager for publicity. In spite of these characteristics, Alleghany and the Kirby family have not been able to avoid the spotlight of controversy at times. Bitter disagreements between Fred Kirby II and his siblings have threatened the kind of unity that gives family-owned businesses the advantage of long-term planning. Several family members resented Kirby's autocratic control of the company and questioned the legitimacy of that control. Mid-1990s and Beyond Nevertheless, Alleghany appeared to be well managed as it made several key moves in the 1990s that strengthened its business portfolio. The company's interest in the railroad was reborn in 1994 and 1995 when it acquired a stake in Santa Fe Pacific Corporation, which was fending off a hostile takeover attempt by Union Pacific Corporation. With the support of Alleghany, Santa Fe instead merged with Burlington Northern to become one of the largest railroad networks in North America. At the same time, change and consolidation in the title insurance industry prompted the company to restructure its Chicago Title & Trust (CT&T) unit. In June 1998, the company spun off its title insurance businesses under the holding company Chicago Title Corporation. Burns, Jr. commented on the strategy in a 1997 National Mortgage News article, claiming that the "establishment of CT&T's title insurance business as an independent company will enhance its ability to focus on operating efficiencies and strategic initiatives required to respond to a changing marketplace." Chicago Title was listed on the New York Stock Exchange and eventually merged with Fidelity National Financial Inc. Alleghany continued to restructure its business holdings into the new century by making several significant divestitures in an attempt to shore up profits. In 2000, the firm sold its Underwriters Re Group Inc. to Swiss Re America Holding Corporation in a deal worth approximately $660 million. The company exited the financial services sector in 2001 through the $825 million sale of Alleghany Asset Management Inc. to a subsidiary of ABN AMRO North America Holding Company. The high costs related to the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States prompted the company to take its sell-off plans one step further: the company sold Alleghany Underwriting Holdings Ltd., a company involved in the global property and casualty insurance and reinsurance business at Lloyd's of London. During this period of streamlining, Alleghany began to look for acquisitions to that would contribute to its bottom line. As such, the company announced that it would purchase Capitol Transamerica Corporation, a profitable Wisconsin-based insurance holding company, along with Nebraska-based Platte River Insurance Company. Both deals were completed in January 2002. The company added Royal Specialty Underwriting Inc. to its arsenal in 2003. As a diversified conglomerate, Alleghany's position was unique in that many of its subsidiaries--in very unrelated industries--held leading market positions. For example, its Minerals unit operated as world's largest producer of filter-aid grade diatomite, a silica-based mineral consisting of the fossilized remains of microscopic freshwater or marine plants. Unpredictable world economies, consolidation, the ever-changing characteristics of the insurance industry, however, promised to keep the company on its toes in the years to come. Indeed, Alleghany planned to focus on internal growth while making selective investments and purchases to bolster its financial position. With a history full of significant merger and divestiture activity, the company's future would no doubt be marked by additional changes to its operating portfolio. Principal Subsidiaries: Alleghany Insurance Holdings LLC; Capitol Transamerica Corporation; Platte River Insurance Company; World Minerals Inc.; Celite Corporation; Harborlite Corporation; Heads & Threads International LLC; Alleghany Properties Inc. Principal Competitors: Atlas Minerals Inc.; The Chubb Corporation; Eagle-Picher Industries Inc. Further Reading: "Allan Kirby Cleared on Murchison Fraud Charge," New York Times, January 14, 1965, p. 49. "Alleghany Completes Purchase of Investors Diversified Services," Wall Street Journal, May 11, 1979, p. 39. "Alleghany Completes Sale to Swiss Re," Journal of Commerce, May 16, 2000, p. 10. "Alleghany Spinning off Largest Title Insurer," National Mortgage News, December 29, 1997, p. 1. "Biding His Time on Rails," Business Week, January 21, 1950, pp. 27-28. Blumstein, Michael, "The Power behind the Alleghany Deal," New York Times, July 17, 1983, p. F6. "The Corporate Marine," Time, January 5, 1968, p. 71. Cowan, Alison Leigh, "Kirby Keeps Control over Foundation," New York Times, June 6, 1991, p. D4. ------, "Promise into Peril: The Kirby Fight," New York Times, June 10, 1990, p. F1. Elliott, J. Richard, Jr., "Switch for Alleghany?," Barron's, February 4, 1957, p. 3. "Fred M. Kirby Succeeds Father as Alleghany Corp. Chairman," New York Times, September 15, 1967, p. 69. Fritz, Michael, "Chicago Corp. Woes a Red Flag for ABN AMRO in Latest Deal," Crain's Chicago Business, November 20, 2000, p. 28. Gores, Paul, "New York-Based Alleghany to Acquire Madison, Wis.-Based Insurance Company," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 21, 2001. "Hands Untied," Forbes, August 15, 1964, pp. 16-17. Kaufman, Larry, "Alleghany Corp. A Seasoned Veteran of Railroad Battles," Journal of Commerce, October 19, 1994, p. 2B. "Kirby's Luck," Forbes, February 1, 1959, p. 29. "Kirby vs. Sonnabend," Forbes, December 1, 1959, pp. 15-16. "Lloyd's-Alleghany Sale Accelerates Post-September 11 Reshuffle," Lloyd's List, November 7, 2001, p. 2. "New Man at Alleghany," Time, December 21, 1962, p. 68. "$930 Buys $1,250," Business Week, April 19, 1941, pp. 67-68. "Practicing What Papa Preached," Forbes, March 1, 1974, pp. 60-61. Rudnitsky, Howard, "Polishing the Family Jewels," Forbes, December 7, 1981, pp. 77-78. Tannenbaum, Jeffrey A., "Alleghany Chief Kirby Transfers Post to J. Burns," Wall Street Journal, June 18, 1992, p. B3. "Texas on Wall Street," Time, June 16, 1961, pp. 80-84. "Tired of Railroading?," Business Week, November 23, 1946, pp. 80-86. "Winner by a Knockout," Time, July 12, 1963, p. 88. "Young's Empire: The Seeds He Sowed Bear Fruit," Business Week, February 14, 1959, pp. 108-16. Source: International Directory of Company Histories, Vol.60. St. James Press, 2004.

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Biographies & Memoirs Home Biographies & Memoirs Truman Page 28 IV During the second half of his first term in the Senate, Truman felt the cloud he was under begin to recede. His standing among his colleagues improved. He was assigned more spacious offices down the hall, suite No. 240, again looking onto the interior courtyard. By his own staff, by others on his committees, he was perceived as dogged, productive, respectful of the opinion of others, good-natured, and extremely likable. “We all found Truman a very nice man…[and] his heart was in the right place,” recalled the historian Telford Taylor, who was then a young attorney on the Interstate Commerce Commission. The senator’s patience, even with the dreariest assignments, seemed infinite. And though no one would have singled him out as exceptional in any particular way or predicted a brilliant future—“But he showed no signs of leadership,” Taylor also remembered—his reputation was clearly on the rise. The Republican Borah, one of the Senate’s certified great men, made a point one day of throwing his arm about Senator Truman’s shoulder in an open show of friendship. Truman was even attempting an occasional speech in the chamber by this time, reading always from prepared texts heavy with facts and figures. Once, in the middle of a debate, Arthur Vandenberg called on him to substantiate a point and after Truman obliged, Vandenberg told the Senate, “When the Senator from Missouri makes a statement like that we can take it for the truth.” It was a gesture Harry would not forget. “He was always going out of his way to do favors for others and you couldn’t help but like his smiling, friendly manner,” said Vic Messall, “…and he was that way with everyone. I never heard him say a cross word to his staff, and that’s a real test….” Mildred Dryden, Truman’s secretary, said, “Never in all the years that I worked for him did I ever see him lose his temper. He was always soft-spoken and very considerate to his staff….” She remembered no “salty language” either, never ever if women were present. Alben Barkley, though he had liked Harry Truman “instinctively” from the start, said that his real appreciation of the man only came clear to him at the dramatic climax of the battle over Roosevelt’s Court-packing plan, the contentious, frustrating issue that dominated in 1937. In his acceptance speech at the Philadelphia convention—the speech Harry had missed hearing but called a masterpiece after reading it in the papers—Roosevelt said, “To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.” In his second inaugural address in January 1937, the President became more specific. “I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished,” he said, and the Congress, like the country, had waited in anticipation to see what new legislation he would demand. In the first week of February came the surprise. It was the Supreme Court he was out to “reform”—really to reshape to his liking—because the Court had found some earlier New Deal programs unconstitutional. His scheme was to enlarge the Court from nine members to fifteen if justices refused to retire at the age of seventy, and after the landslide in November, which gave him the largest majority in Congress ever enjoyed by a President, Roosevelt felt confident of having his way. He neither consulted with the leadership in Congress nor gave any advance word of what he was up to. The President was wrong in his approach; the whole attempt to influence the decisions of the Court by increasing its size was a blunder, damaging to Roosevelt and to the Senate. Opposition in the Senate was fierce, and especially among Democrats, including not just conservatives like Carter Glass and Bennett Clark, but such formerly reliable Roosevelt men as Connally and Wheeler, who now led the fight against the Court-packing bill. Barkley, Truman, virtually every Democratic senator who had been a steadfast Roosevelt supporter now found himself caught between vehement pressure from the White House on the one hand and, on the other, outrage at home over the whole idea. By June, even Garner, Roosevelt’s own Vice President, had become so infuriated over the affair that he packed his bags and went back to Texas. “The people are with me,” Roosevelt had snapped when Garner took issue with him. A disappointed Carter Glass thought probably the Senate was with him, too, so great was the Roosevelt magic. “Of course I shall oppose it,” said Glass. “I shall oppose it with all the strength that remains to me, but I don’t imagine for a minute that it’ll do any good. Why, if the President asked Congress to commit suicide tomorrow they’d do it.” Truman, like Barkley, decided to stand with the President, on the grounds that the size of the Court had been changed before in times past. But he took no part in the debate. He was preoccupied with the railroad investigations, where Wheeler, because of his part in the Court battle, had lost interest and left him most of the work, making Truman vice-chairman of the subcommittee. In June, in the midst of the Court fight, Harry ventured his longest, most daring speech thus far in the Senate, a preliminary report of the railroad investigations. As summer came on, he would have preferred greatly to stay free of the whole Court issue and like so many wished only that it had never happened. He found himself deluged with angry mail. Having announced his position on the bill, he was accused of being a Roosevelt stooge. His headaches returned. At the White House the President’s advisers were saying that if this fight were won, everything else he wanted would “fall into the basket.” But all strategies were suddenly shattered on July 14, when Majority Leader Joseph Robinson, who had been carrying the fight for Roosevelt, fell dead in his apartment across from the Capitol, the victim of a heart attack. Only days before Senator Royal Copeland, who was a physician, had slipped into a seat beside Robinson to warn him that he should slow down. Bess, who was suffering acutely from Washington’s oppressive heat, voiced worries about her own husband’s stamina in a letter to Ethel Noland. “H. is worn out and is not well and will simply have to have a good rest or he will be really ill.” The fight on the Court was deferred until a new majority leader could be named. In the running were Barkley and the arch-conservative “Pat” Harrison of Mississippi, chairman of the Finance Committee. It was a critical juncture that could determine the future of the New Deal in the Senate, and Roosevelt, determined to see Barkley win, wrote an open “Dear Alben” letter in which he referred to Barkley as the “acting” majority leader. To many in the Senate this seemed arrogant interference with what was solely Senate Business, and so another bitter fight resulted. From a private poll, Jim Farley calculated that Harrison stood to win by a single vote. Pressure from the White House grew intense—and not especially subtle. Senator William H. Dieterich of Illinois, who had pledged himself to Harrison, received a call from Boss Kelly of Chicago promising Dieterich a say in the appointment of two federal judges, should he vote as Roosevelt wished, which was quite enough to convince Dieterich to switch sides. On July 19, a day before the vote, Harry heard from Tom Pendergast, who had been called by the White House and asked to “tell” Harry Truman how to vote. Only in this instance no offer of patronage was forthcoming. Harry told T.J. that he had already promised Pat Harrison his support and could not go back on his word. “Jim Aylward phoned me, too,” Harry told William Helm an hour later. “I didn’t mind turning Jim down, not so much, anyhow, but to say No to Tom was one of the hardest things I ever had to do.” According to Harry, this was the one and only time T.J. had ever called him about a vote. Normally, T.J. made his views known by telegram. But possibly T.J. did not like pressure from the White House any more than Harry, for as Harry also related, Pendergast had said it “didn’t make a helluva lot of difference to him….” Why Harry had ever lined up with Harrison remains a mystery—he liked Barkley, nor had he any reason to oppose him—unless he saw it as a way to show the President he could not be taken for granted any longer. He refused to be budged and was so furious with the people at the White House, the President included, that he could hardly contain himself. By going to Pendergast, rather than coming directly to him, they had left little doubt as to what they really thought of him. In their eyes, he was still truly the Senator from Pendergast, It was the worst insult he had suffered since coming to Washington and he decided to let Roosevelt know how he felt. Told that the President was not available, he talked to Steve Early, the press secretary. He was tired of being “pushed around” and treated like an office boy, Truman said. He expected the consideration and courtesy that his office entitled him to. Senator Barkley, all the while, was under the impression that Harry Truman had given him his pledge of support. Barkley would later describe how Harry had come to him saying, “The pressure on me is so great [to vote for Harrison] that I am going to ask you to relieve me of my promise.” It was this foursquare approach of Truman’s that so impressed him, Barkley said. “I always admired him for the courage and character he displayed in coming to me as he did. Too often in politics the stiletto is slipped between your shoulder blades, while its wielder continues to smile sweetly….” On July 21 the Democratic members of the Senate met in the white marble Caucus Room of the Senate Office Building to vote for a majority leader by secret ballot. The winner was Alben Barkley by one vote. (Barkley would later speculate on how he might have felt about Harry Truman had he lost by one vote.) Harry immediately pledged Barkley his support and they were to be friends and allies thereafter. The steam was gone from the Court bill. On July 22, by a margin of 50 votes, the Senate sent it back to the Judiciary Committee, where it died. The President had suffered his first and worst defeat since taking office, which to Harry’s mind he richly deserved. The whole affair, Harry thought, had been a mistake and very badly managed by Roosevelt. As time passed, in the comparatively few months of each year when Bess and Margaret were with him in Washington, the Trumans moved from one small, temporary apartment to another—to Sedgwick Gardens on Connecticut Avenue in the spring of 1936, to the Carroll Arms on 1st Street in early 1937, the Warwick Apartments on Idaho Avenue in 1938. In 1939 they were back again at Tilden Gardens, where they began. Margaret, who had grown taller and even more spindly, was attending Gunston Hall, a private school for girls, which was another financial worry for Harry. Independence, however, remained “home” for Margaret, as for Bess, who felt the constant pressure of her mother’s need for her. Madge Wallace, who still believed Bess could have done better in the way of a husband, gave no sign of interest in Harry or his career. The long separations grew no easier. “I just can’t stand it without you,” he wrote to Bess as the new session got under way in 1937. She was not only Juno, Venus, and Minerva to him, he wrote, but Proserpina, too, and urged her to look that up. Proserpina, as Margaret would remember ever after, was a goddess who spent half of each year in Hades with her husband Pluto, separated from her grieving mother. His letters dutifully reported his modest social life. He went to the movies, played some penny-ante poker, listened to the symphony or opera on the radio. One weekend he drove to Gettysburg to hike over the battlefield with John Snyder, a St. Louis banker he had gotten to know at summer Army camp over the years. Another day he “played hooky” from the Appropriations Committee and went to the War College to hear Douglas Southall Freeman lecture on Robert E. Lee, which he thought “one of the greatest talks I ever heard.” His health was uneven and he worried about it perhaps more than necessary. In the wake of the Court-packing fight, he felt so wretched he went to the Army-Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, for a checkup and complete rest. A month or so later, working harder than ever, nerves ragged, he was beset again by savage headaches. “This so-called committee work is nothing but drudgery and publicity,” he wrote, “all so depressing sometimes.” Vic Messall thought possibly he was drinking too much. William Helm wrote later that he had never known anyone who could hold his liquor so well as Senator Truman. On one occasion Helm had seen him take five drinks and show no effect. “Not once did I ever see him under the slightest influence of liquor.” The records from his stay at the Army-Navy Hospital at Hot Springs say only that he had developed severe headaches and “a sense of continually being tired,” a “general malaise.” The President and his people continued to exhibit only supreme indifference toward him, which became especially grating whenever the governor of Missouri, Harry’s friend Lloyd C. Stark, came to town. It had been Harry who arranged for Stark to meet Roosevelt for the first time, in October 1936, when Stark was running for governor. By mail and telegram Harry had urged the President to invite Stark and his wife to join him on board his train, as he campaigned across Missouri. “They are charming people,” Harry had assured the President in a telegram from Independence. Now Stark went frequently to the White House and spoke warmly of Roosevelt as “the Chief.” Stark was invited to join poker parties on the President’s yacht on cruises down the Potomac, something Senator Truman could only dream of. Senator Truman often had difficulty getting the President’s secretary even to return his calls. Once, on a quick visit to Capitol Hill, Stark poked his head in at Harry’s office door to say that some of the folks in Missouri were trying to get him to run for the Senate when Harry came up for reelection, but that Harry need not worry. When Stark had gone, Harry told Vic Messall, “That son-of-a-bitch is fixing to run against me.” Alone one night in October listening to the radio, he began to weep. “A couple of kids were singing ‘They’ll Never Believe Me’ from the Girl from Utah,” he wrote to Bess, “and I sat here and thought of another couple of kids listening to Julia Sanderson and Donald Brian singing that beautiful melody and lovely sentiment, and I wished so badly for the other kid that I had to write her to sort of dry my eyes.” No one ever seemed to understand how sentimental he was, below the surface. He was lonely, homesick, feeling unappreciated, feeling sorry for himself, thinking often of times gone by. “Today is my father’s birthday,” he wrote on December 5. “He’d be eighty-six, if he’d lived. I always wished he’d lived to see me elected to this place. There’d have been no holding him.” The brighter side was an unlikely new friendship. A staff member of the railroad subcommittee, Max Lowenthal, had invited him to meet Justice Louis D. Brandeis, at one of the winter teas that Brandeis and his wife gave Sunday afternoons in an old-fashioned apartment on California Street. These Brandeis teas, as Marquis Childs would write, had become a “slightly awesome institution” in the capital, with Mrs. Brandeis presiding as umpire over a kind of musical chairs game designed to give the justice ten or fifteen minutes of individual conversation with as many guests as possible within an hour and a half. Truman was not accustomed to meeting such people, he had told Lowenthal candidly when the invitation was first issued. But to his surprise, Brandeis had spent more time with him than any of the other guests, wanting to hear about Harry’s railway investigations and appearing extremely pleased to learn that Harry had read some of his books. They sat in stiff, uncomfortable chairs in a large living room where little had changed since the time of Woodrow Wilson, the walls decorated with photographs of classical ruins. Brandeis, the first Jew to serve on the Supreme Court and the country’s most distinguished Jeffersonian liberal, was by then in his eighties and to Harry, “a great old man.” The day was cold, with snow forecast, but Harry felt warmed by the whole experience, a little out of place, yet more welcome than he had ever expected. “It was a rather exclusive and brainy party. I didn’t exactly belong but they made me think I did.” He went several times again, and as he later wrote, he found that he and Brandeis were “certainly in agreement on the dangers of bigness.” The influence of Brandeis was apparent soon enough. On Monday, December 20, 1937, Senator Truman delivered the second of his assaults on corporate greed and corruption. In the earlier speech in June he had recalled how Jesse James, in order to rob the Rock Island Railroad, had had to get up early in the morning and risk his life to make off with $3,000. Yet, by means of holding companies, modern-day financiers had stolen $70 million from the same railroad. “Senators can see,” he said then, “what ‘pikers’ Mr. James and his crowd were alongside of some real artists.” Now, in a prepared address written and rewritten several times with the help of Max Lowenthal, he attacked the power of Wall Street and the larger evil of money worship, sounding at times not unlike his boyhood hero, William Jennings Bryan. He had announced the speech in advance, so as to be heard by something more than an empty chamber. “It probably will catalogue me as a radical,” he warned Bess, “but it will be what I think.” His lifelong hatred of high hats and privilege, all the traditional Missouri suspicion of concentrated power and of the East, came spouting forth with a degree of feeling his fellow senators had not seen or heard until now. He attacked the “court and lawyer situation” in the gigantic receiverships and reorganizations that destroyed railroads, and named the powerful law firms involved—Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood of New York; Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardner & Reed, also of New York; Winston, Strawn & Shaw of Chicago. He cited the immense fees taken by the attorneys for the receivers, told how some attorneys took their families on free vacations to California in the private cars of a bankrupt line, how a receivership judge on the federal bench had a private car on the bankrupt Milwaukee & St. Paul at his beck and call. “Do you see how it pays to know all about these things from the inside?” he asked. How these gentlemen, the highest of the high-hats in the legal profession, resort to tricks that would make an ambulance chaser in a coroner’s court blush with shame? The same gentlemen, if the past is any guide to the future, will come out of the pending receiverships with more and fatter fees, and wind up by becoming attorneys for the new and reorganized railroad companies at fat yearly retainers; and they will probably earn them, because it will be their business to get by the Interstate Commerce Commission, to interpret, and to see that the courts interpret, laws passed by the Congress as they want them construed. These able and intelligent lawyers, counsellors, attorneys, whatever you want to call them, have interviews and hold conferences with the members of the Interstate Commerce Commission, take them to dinner and discuss pending matters with them. The commission, you know, is the representative of the public and it has its lawyers also, but the ordinary government mine-run bureaucratic lawyer is no more a match for the amiable gentlemen who represent the great railroads, insurance companies, and Wall Street bankers than the ordinary lamb is a match for the butcher. The underlying problem throughout, he said, was avarice, “wild greed.” We worship money instead of honor. A billionaire, in our estimation, is much greater in these days in the eyes of the people than the public servant who works for public interest. It makes no difference if the billionaire rode to wealth on the sweat of little children and the blood of underpaid labor. No one ever considered Carnegie libraries steeped in the blood of the Homestead steelworkers, but they are. We do not remember that the Rockefeller Foundation is founded on the dead miners of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company and a dozen other similar performances. We worship Mammon; and until we go back to ancient fundamentals and return to the Giver of the Tables of Law and His teachings, these conditions are going to remain with us. It is a pity that Wall Street, with its ability to control all the wealth of the nation and to hire the best law brains in the country, has not produced some statesmen, some men who could see the dangers of bigness and of the concentration of the control of wealth. Instead of working to meet the situation, they are still employing the best law brains to serve greed and self interest. People can stand only so much, and one of these days there will be a settlement…. He saw the country’s unemployment and unrest as the fault of too much concentration of power and population, too much bigness in everything. The country would be better off if 60 percent of all the assets of all insurance companies were not concentrated in four companies. A thousand insurance companies, with $4 million each in assets, would be a thousand times better for the country than the Metropolitan Life, with its $4 billion in assets. Just as a thousand towns of 7,000 people were of more value than one city of 7 million. Wild greed along the lines I have been describing brought on the Depression. When investment bankers, so-called, continually load great transportation companies with debt in order to sell securities to savings banks and insurance companies so they can make a commission, the well finally runs dry…. There is no magic solution to the condition of the railroads, but one thing is certain—no formula, however scientific, will work without men of proper character responsible for physical and financial operations of the roads and for the administration of the laws provided by Congress. The speech was front-page news in The New York Times and drew the immediate attention of labor leaders and reform-minded citizens across the country. Nor did anyone in the Senate doubt that he had done his homework. Not even the dullest of hearings seemed to wear him down and some were as dull as any ever recorded at the Capitol. Many times he was the only senator present. In the eyes of those working with him, he had also shown uncommon courage. Much of the focus had been on the financial finagling behind the bankrupt Missouri Pacific Railroad. Max Lowenthal, a former labor attorney, had written a critical analysis of railroad reorganization, The Investor Pays. As an expert on the subject, he warned the senator that the inquiries might produce some “pretty hot stuff,” and that this could be embarrassing for him in Missouri. Truman instructed Lowenthal and the staff to proceed as they would with any other investigation. Pressures on him to call off the hearings, or at least to go easy, did become intense. But there was no letting up, Lowenthal did not think there were a half-dozen others in the Senate who could have withstood the pressure Truman took. The hearings continued, the senator cross-examining witnesses in a courteous but persistent fashion. Lowenthal would remember that it seemed “an innate part of his personality to be fair and to know what is fair, and to exercise restraint when he possesses great power, particularly the power to investigate…the power to police…. He gave witnesses all the time they wanted.” Ironically, the senator whose own background had seemed so suspect was gaining a reputation as a skilled investigator. Though it did not seem of particular importance at the time, Truman was also taking positions on civil rights that appeared to belie his Missouri background. He consistently supported legislation that would abolish the poll tax and prevent lynchings. In 1938, in a Senate battle over an anti-lynching bill, he voted to limit debate on the bill in an unsuccessful effort to break a filibuster against it. Still more outspoken were his feelings on “preparedness,” national defense. “We must not close our eyes to the possibility of another war,” he warned an American Legion meeting at Larchmont, New York, in 1938, “because conditions in Europe have developed to a point likely to cause an explosion any time.” He called for the establishment of an air force “second to none.” No one could be more mistaken than the isolationists, he said. America had erred gravely by refusing to sign the Versailles Treaty and refusing to join the League of Nations. “We did not accept our responsibility as a world power.” America couldn’t pull back and hide from the world. America was blessed with riches and America wanted peace, but “in the coming struggle between democracy and dictatorship, democracy must be prepared to defend its principles and its wealth.” image The end for Tom Pendergast was drawing near. The once robust, florid Big Boss looked dreadful, gray, drawn, physically diminished, and for all his high style of living he was close to financial ruin as a consequence of his chronic, consuming need to gamble. In one month he lost nearly $75,000 betting on the horses. His new private secretary at 1908 Main Street, Bernard Gnefkow, regularly kept tabs on bets of $5,000 to $20,000 on a single race. Later estimates were that T.J. may have squandered $6 million on the horses. But as would be shown, he had kept these transactions cleverly hidden from friends and family, as well as the government, by using cash only and devising fictitious names to conceal where the money came from and where it went. In the last part of the 1930s he had become so in debt to gamblers and bookmakers around the country as to be virtually in their control. They spoke of him not as “the Big Boss” but “the Big Sucker.” To anyone who knew the story of the Pendergasts and their dynasty this seemed an odd turn of fate, since it was luck at the track that had given them their start, with Alderman Jim and his winnings on the horse called Climax. Later, in an effort to explain the downfall of Boss Tom, his admirers, including Senator Harry Truman, would insist that he was “not himself,” that failing health and the gambling fever drove him to do things he never would have done in his prime. A Kansas City police officer named John Flavin, a veteran of years on the force, would remember that on the day T.J. gave him his job, he had said, “Don’t ever take any money that doesn’t belong to you and you’ll never have any trouble in life.” A new federal district attorney for Kansas City had begun investigations, focusing first on vote fraud in the ’36 elections. He was Maurice Milligan, the younger brother of Tuck Milligan, and he, too, was Bennett Clark’s man (Clark had arranged his appointment). But after the ’36 elections Milligan’s chief ally in the assault on Pendergast was Governor Lloyd C. Stark, whose own rise to office owed so much to T.J. and the whole Kansas City organization. Stark had turned on Pendergast as no one ever had—or ever dared try—determined to destroy him once and for all. It was Stark’s conviction that his loyalty belonged to the people, not to any machine or its boss. The documentation amassed by Milligan and a swarm of FBI agents revealed that approximately 60,000 “ghost” votes had been cast in Kansas City in 1936. Many precincts had registration figures exceeding the known population. Hundreds of defendants were brought to court and, as the Star reporter William Reddig noted, what surprised most people from Kansas City, who had heard about election thieves for years, was to find how many of them looked just like ordinary citizens, as indeed most were. The trials, lasting nearly two years, led to 279 convictions, and Milligan, a handsome, pipe-smoking “country lawyer,” became a local hero. But what would prove the crucial investigation began only after Governor Stark, accompanied by Milligan, went to Washington. Bennett Clark had given Roosevelt the tip that Pendergast had failed to report huge sums of income on his tax returns. Roosevelt notified the Treasury Department and it was then that Treasury investigators started looking into the story of the insurance bribe first described by Marquis Childs in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1935. Before they were finished, Stark and Milligan had five federal agencies at work on special assignment. They found that an official of the Great American Insurance Companies, Charles Street, had met with Pendergast in a Chicago hotel in January 1935, or just as Senator Truman was trying to learn his way about Capitol Hill. The Chicago meeting had been arranged by R. Emmett O’Malley, Missouri’s Superintendent of Insurance. Charles Street, speaking for some eight different insurance companies, told Pendergast he wanted the settlement by O’Malley’s office of an old issue over fire insurance rates that had kept nearly $10 million impounded. And that of course he was willing to pay for it. When Street offered $200,000, T.J. declined. When Street offered $500,000, T.J. said yes. Later, An the interest of speeding things along, the $500,000 was increased to $750,000. A first installment of $50,000 in cash was delivered to T.J. personally at his Main Street office on May 9, 1935. An agreement releasing the insurance money was then worked out in a room at the Muehlebach Hotel by Street, O’Malley, and attorneys for the insurance companies, after which further payments on the bribe continued. One delivery to T.J.’s house on Ward Parkway in the spring of 1936 was for a total of $330,000 in cash in a Gladstone bag. Though none of this was disclosed for some while, Stark fired O’Malley and rumors were rampant. How much or little Senator Truman knew is not recorded. Probably it was very little, in view of how hard he took the news when it broke. But when District Attorney Milligan’s term expired early in 1938 and both Stark and Roosevelt were calling on the Senate to confirm his reappointment, Harry Truman found himself facing the nearly certain prospect of being the lone senator with objections. By senatorial custom, he could have blocked the reappointment simply by saying that Milligan was personally obnoxious to him. This he did not do, however, because Franklin Roosevelt called him on the phone and asked him not to, as a personal favor. He could also, of course, have had nothing to do with the matter, and remained silent. Instead, on Tuesday, February 15, 1938, he marched through the swinging doors of the Senate Chamber and delivered a full-scale attack on Milligan, as well as on the federal judges in Kansas City, a scathing, bitter speech that helped his reputation not at all, nor served any purpose other than to release a great deal of pent-up fury and possibly bring Tom Pendergast a measure of satisfaction. Milligan, he said, was Roosevelt’s “personal appointment” and made to appease the “rabidly partisan press.” He called Milligan corrupt, and charged the judges with playing politics, since they had been appointed by Republican Presidents Harding and Coolidge, “I say, Mr. President, that a jackson County, Missouri, Democrat has as much chance of a fair trial in the Federal District Court of Western Missouri as a Jew would have in a Hitler court or a Trotsky follower before Stalin.” It was the one time he had ever attacked the President, the one time he had ever touched on, let alone defended his political origins in the Senate, and it was his worst moment in the Senate. Again he read from a prepared text. Yet he seemed out of control, grossly overreacting even if some of his points deserved hearing—the refusal of the courts, for example, to let anyone from Jackson County sit on the juries. “The manner in which the juries were drawn,” remembered a federal district judge in Kansas City years later, “and the fact that only Democrats were indicted in the polling precincts in which the vote fraud occurred, when it was obvious that the Republican judges and clerk of elections in the same precincts were equally guilty, distorted Truman’s view beyond comprehension. He felt he had to blast, and blast he did—to his discredit.” Possibly, with a more measured, thoughtful defense, he could have taken his audience beyond the stereotypical picture of boss rule. By his own bearing, the decency and common sense that were so much a part of him, he might have encouraged appreciation of the accomplishments of the Kansas City organization that he himself so admired. As it was, he achieved nothing. When the time came to confirm Milligan by vote, he was the lone senator in opposition. To his credit, it would be said only that he had made a brave gesture of loyalty to an old friend. At least he had not “run for cover.” So harsh were the expressions of disapproval issued at the White House that Truman began feeling his career was over. He brooded for days. In a confidential letter to a friend, he said that “in view of my speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday and the reaction to it from the White House,” he would not be running for reelection in 1940—though later he would ask for return of the letter. image He had made matters no better, meantime, by announcing his intention to have his burly factotum, Fred Canfil, custodian of the Jackson County Courthouse, appointed a U.S. Marshal in Kansas City, an idea that met with immediate outrage there. The Justice Department sent FBI agents to begin inquiries and across one interdepartmental memorandum J. Edgar Hoover scrawled: “I want to make certain a very complete and thorough investigation is made of this man.” By early March 1939, sensing the tide of opinion on Canfil was strongly against him, Truman said he was for Canfil or nobody. “I am for Canfil, first, last, and all the time.” But Canfil was found unsatisfactory and rejected, chiefly because of the volume of adverse rumors and opinion gathered by the FBI. Five months earlier, in November, the senator had been assured through channels high up in the Justice Department that Canfil was acceptable and would be approved. “They figure they’ll need Harry next session,” he had said of the administration in a letter to Bess. But that was in November. In Kansas City, by appearances, the functioning of the organization continued as before, T.J. somehow managing a serene face to the world. He went to his office as usual, except that now, because of his health, he rode the elevator in the adjacent hotel and crossed through to 1908 at the second-floor level, to avoid the stairs. In a municipal election in the spring of 1938, despite a new election board appointed by Governor Stark, despite the sensation of the vote fraud trials, the organization’s candidates won by large margins. Considering the forces aligned against him, it was T.J.’s most impressive triumph ever, showing, as was said, that “the party in power…had lost none of its hold on honest voters.” An exuberant, immensely gratified T.J. issued a rare statement to the press: If it is true…that the Democratic President of the United States was against us, that the Attorney General of the United States was against us, that the Governor of Missouri was against us, that the independent Kansas City Star newspaper was against us—I think under those circumstances we made a wonderful showing. To Senator Truman it seemed to prove, as it did to many observers, that prior vote frauds had been unnecessary; the party would have won anyway. How often or to what degree T.J. and Harry were in contact at this stage is again unknown. Mildred Dryden, Harry’s secretary, could recall no correspondence from Tom Pendergast. Only one communication written in T.J.’s own large, clear hand has survived, a note in red pencil on a single sheet of Jackson Democratic Club stationery: “Please help Sam Finklestein. He will explain. He has been my friend for 40 years. T.J. Pendergast.” As Sam Finklestein did explain when he carried the note to Senator Truman in December 1938, he was trying to get two of his relatives out of Germany, Siegfried and Paula Finklestein of Berlin. Harry moved quickly, but in a report to T.J. mailed just before Christmas, Vic Messall could say only that the matter had been taken up with the American consul general in Berlin and that as soon as more information was available T.J. would be advised “immediately.” For the moment the quota was full. Whether the Finklesteins ever succeeded in escaping to America is not known. On Tuesday, April 4, 1939, J. Edgar Hoover himself arrived in Kansas City. On Friday, April 7, T. J. Pendergast was indicted for tax evasion. In Washington, Senator Truman was reported to have looked “hurt and astounded” at the news. “I am sure he had little inkling of his old friend’s troubles before the grand jury returned its indictment,” wrote William Helm. “Even then he seemed to cling to the hope that Pendergast somehow would prove his innocence….” Asked for a comment by reporters, Harry said, “I am very sorry to hear it. I know nothing about the details…Tom Pendergast has always been my friend and I don’t desert a sinking ship.” To Bess he would write, “The terrible things done by the high ups in K.C. will be a lead weight to me from now on.” On May 22, at the federal court in Kansas City, T.J. pleaded guilty. The total in evaded taxes, including fines, came to $830,494.73. R. Emmett O’Malley and the director of the Kansas City police department were also convicted of tax evasion, as was Matthew S. Murray, the city’s Director of Public Works. Charles Street, the insurance executive involved in the bribe, was dead. Edward L. Schneider, secretary treasurer of seven Pendergast companies, killed himself, or so it appeared, after making a full statement of his transactions to the grand jury. How many millions of dollars had been stolen from the city was never precisely determined. City Manager Henry McElroy, who also died while facing indictment, was found to have misplaced some $20 million with his unique system of bookkeeping, a figure nearly twice the city’s annual budget. The assertion later by several of his friends that Harry Truman could have walked off with a million dollars during his time as presiding judge, had he chosen, seems an understatement. “He was broke when he went to the Senate,” Edgar Hinde would say. “He didn’t have a dime and he had all the opportunity in the world. He could have walked out of that office [as county judge] with a million dollars on that road contract. You know that would have been the easiest thing in the world. He could have gone to one of those contractors and said, ‘I want ten percent.’ Why you know they would have given it to him in a flash. But he came out of there with nothing.” “Looks like everybody got rich in Jackson County but me,” Harry wrote privately to Bess from Washington. At 8:45 A.M., May 29, accompanied by his son, T.J., Jr., and Jim Pendergast, T.J. arrived at the east gate of the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth to begin serving a sentence of fifteen months, reduced from three years in view of his age and health. On the day of his sentencing, the judge had remarked to reporters that he could well understand the feelings expressed for Pendergast by his friends. “I believe if I did know him I, too, might have been one of his friends. I think he is a man of character that makes friends.” In all that was revealed by the investigations there was nothing to suggest any involvement with illegal activities on the part of Harry Truman. As District Attorney Milligan, never a particular admirer of the senator, would state: “At no time did the finger of suspicion ever point in the direction of Harry Truman.” In its issue of April 24, 1939, Life magazine devoted six pages to the meteoric rise of Governor Lloyd C. Stark, the article illustrated with numerous lurid photographs of the Pendergast debacle. Governor Stark, said the magazine, was the new Democratic version of young Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican racket-buster of New York, and claimed that the major result of Pendergast’s fall was to “catapult honest, efficient Lloyd Stark, an apple grower, right into the presidential ring.” Or at the least to a seat in the United States Senate. (Elsewhere there had been talk of Stark as the next Secretary of the Navy.) In Missouri, praise for Stark was overflowing. He was called “Missouri’s Moral Leader,” a figure of national importance, a presidential possibility, and in any event, “a man with a future.” “He has earned the high estimate,” wrote the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in an editorial that Stark clipped and sent to Roosevelt. He chose the hard way, and, of course, the right way, of meeting all the obligations of his office. He could have chosen the easiest way. He might have gone through the routine perfunctorily, basked in the approval of the all-powerful Pendergast machine that had supported him for the nomination, acquiesced in the Boss’s few but salient demands, kept the peace…. The Governor entered his office under the shadow of the Kansas City machine. He had to live down the suspicion of being a Pendergast man…. The contrast to the path chosen by Senator Truman went without saying. Life, too, acknowledged that Stark had accepted Pendergast support in 1936, but stressed there was nothing new in American politics about a governor turning on the machine that helped elect him. Theodore Roosevelt had done it in 1899, Woodrow Wilson in 1910, Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932. All three became President, and “square-shouldered, poker-faced, dignified” Lloyd C. Stark, too, would like to be President, “quite definitely.” In September, Stark announced he was running for Truman’s seat in the Senate.

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Nicholas and Alexandra Citation: C N Trueman "Nicholas And Alexandra" historylearningsite.co.uk. The History Learning Site, 22 May 2015. 27 Jun 2021. Nicholas and Alexandra Nicholas II was a highly sensitive man who preferred to be with his family than involve himself in the day-today running of his nation. A weak man, he was frequently bullied into doing things by his overbearing wife, Alexandra. nicholas Nicholas had married Princess Alexandra in 1894. She was the daughter of the Grand Duke of Hesse and a grand-daughter of Queen Victoria. The daughter who came from a small German state, found herself married to the position of Empress of all Russians. She embraced the orthodox faith with all the fanaticism of a convert and she decided to convince all at court that she was more Russian than the Russians. She was a very strong supporter of Russification introduced by Alexander III and to all intents she bullied her husband. Nicholas was a family man – his wife wanted him to display the talents of his father – to be aggressive, strong and resolute. Alexandra was never popular in Russia. Her personality upset and angered very many of the people she met. However, despite her attempts to get her husband to be more resolute, she was a devoted wife to Nicholas. Alexandra was also determined to produce a male heir for the Romanov dynasty. In 1904, amidst much celebration, Alexis was born – a male heir to ensure the continuation of the Romanovs. However, the happiness of Nicholas and Alexandra was short lived as Alexis was diagnosed as a haemophiliac and was not expected to live long. Both parents devoted much time to the boy and left the government of Russia to others. Alexandra was a very protective mother, but she was also determined to see that her son became tsar. Alexandra believed that she was more suited to do this than her husband: “The emperor unfortunately is weak, but I am not and I intend to be firm.” Alexandra, writing in 1905 After the years of repression under Alexander III, people in Russia hoped for a new start under Nicholas. However, the reign got off to a bad start from the first day. At the coronation ceremony in 1894, the crowd gathered for the traditional distribution of gifts. The crowd was understandably large and the police had to force a way through for Nicholas. This caused a stampede and 1,300 people were crushed to death and many more were injured. Despite this tragedy, Nicholas and Alexandra acted as if nothing had happened and attended the coronation ball that evening just hours after the deaths. This event showed that Nicholas, the sensitive family man, had less sensitivity for those not in his gilded circle. As a ruler, Nicholas had many failings. However, the most important was his inability to dominate events and take charge. As an example, his coronation address was merely a repeat of what Alexander III had said. The domination of his father was also shown in the fact that he kept most of his father’s ministers rather than appoint his own. However, these men did have the tried and tested experience of knowledge of government; they also knew how Alexander’s mind worked and what he wanted for Russia. With Nicholas, they had a tsar who wanted to continue his father’s policies but had neither the driving force nor the abilities of him. Senior ministers such as Plehve and Witte started to carry out their own policies as opposed to what Nicholas might have wanted. He, in turn, was more concerned with family issues and was seemingly bewildered by major affairs of state. Nicholas had inherited a nation undergoing enormous changes. Whether Russia would have experienced serious social unrest under Alexander III is open to speculation. However, the industrialisation of Russia was starting to create serious social problems in the cities which the authorities were not dealing with – and probably could not deal with. The speed of industrialisation, financed by French and other European money, had developed a momentum of its own. Therefore, Nicholas had inherited, in 1894, a nation that may well have rebelled without the input of Lenin and other revolutionaries. What would Alexander have done in such a situation? At least he would have been decisive even if his decisions may have been wrong. Nicholas simply could not be decisive. His position was not helped by the fact that his wife had a series of favourites who used their position to influence him via his wife. The influence of her most favourite was a disaster for Russia – Gregory Rasputin. The three most senior government ministers under Nicholas who dominated Russia were Pobedonestev, Witte and Plehve. Count Witte was foreign minister. He had alienated many in government because he did not come from old landed stock – he was a nouveau riche who had made his money as a railway entrepreneur. As a man who had been born into a low middle class family, his rise to power had been spectacular, even if it had brought with it jealousy within the royal court. However, his business acumen had led to large sums of foreign capital being invested in Russia. He also got foreign loans for the government. Pobedonestev continued with the Holy Synod’s policy of preaching obedience. Plehve was a hard-liner. He was seen as a government enforcer who was solely guided by doing what he thought was best for the tsar. In 1900, Russia was threatened by a series of industrial strikes. Plehve’s only policy to answer these strikes was “execute, execute, execute”. In July 1904, he was killed by a bomb. Only Witte tried to introduce policies that reflected the growing complexity of Russia’s society in the reign of Nicholas. However, a great deal of his time and energy was taken up with taking on Plehve – a man he hated, and the hatred was mutual. From 1900 to 1904, Russia was spiralling into chaos. There was widespread discontent in the countryside, despite the work of the Holy Synod and the traditional conservatism of the peasantry. This discontent was also seen in the cities. Newly created political parties hoped to tap into this discontent – groups such as the Socialist Revolutionaries and the Social Democrats Party. Before he was killed, Plehve is known to have said: “What we need to hold Russia back from revolution is a small, victorious war.” Russia was to get its war with Japan. It was relatively small, but it was anything but victorious and was to have a disastrous impact on the nation.

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Best Health This Vegan Sloppy Joe Dish Makes a Healthy Comfort Food Lauren Toyota 2 days ago 3 Comments | 13 'When we embrace hijab, we embrace death:' Muslims balance faith, safety Best Value Stocks: 2 Canadian Stars Sure, you can make this sloppy joe filling and eat it on a soft kaiser, but that’s so basic. I want to give you a healthier option so you can eat even more sloppy joe stuff. You can round out these zucchini boats with garlic bread or rice on the side and serve as a meal. Or, if you’re too lazy to prep the zucchini altogether, just pour the sloppy joe mixture into an oven-safe dish, top with the vegan cheese shreds, and bake for 20 minutes until melty! Serve with slices of garlic toast for dipping for a perfect last-minute party appie. a piece of pizza© Image: Vanessa Heins (Related: In Praise of Prepackaged Vegan Products) Sloppy Joe Zucchini Boats Makes 8 boats Ingredients Gallery: 16 Strawberry Recipes That’ll Sweeten Up Your Summer (Best Health) Slide 1 of 16: This show-stopping layer cake is piled high with vanilla-scented yogurt cream, fresh seasonal strawberries and a drizzle of local honey. Recipe: Mile-High Strawberry Shortcake Next Slide Auto Rotation On Full Screen 1/16 SLIDES © photo credit: James t MILE-HIGH STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE This show-stopping layer cake is piled high with vanilla-scented yogurt cream, fresh seasonal strawberries and a drizzle of local honey. Recipe: Mile-High Strawberry Shortcake 4 large zucchini 3 tablespoons olive oil, divided 1 cup finely chopped white or yellow onion (about 1 onion) 1 cup finely diced green bell pepper (about 1 pepper) 2 tablespoons coconut sugar or light brown sugar 2 tablespoons gluten-free tamari or low-sodium soy sauce 1 tablespoon minced garlic (about 2 large cloves) 2 teaspoons vegan beef-flavoured bouillon base or 2 cubes 2 teaspoons chili powder 2 teaspoons onion powder 1 teaspoon smoked paprika 1 teaspoon sea salt 1 teaspoon ground black pepper 1 package (13.7 oz/390 g) veggie ground round(about 3 cups) 2 cups canned crushed fire-roasted tomatoes ¼ cup vegan Worcestershire 2 cups mixed vegan cheese shreds (1 cup each mozzarella and Cheddar) 3 tablespoons Italian-style bread crumbs Instructions Cut each zucchini in half lengthwise. Use a paring knife to score around the inside edge about ¼ inch from the sides, being careful not to cut through the zucchini. Use a spoon to carefully scoop out the flesh. Save the zucchini flesh for another use. Take 1 tablespoon of the oil and brush both sides of the zucchini boats with a light layer. Arrange the zucchini halves side by side on a large baking sheet with the hollowed parts facing up. In a large nonstick pan, heat the remaining 2 tablespoons of oil over medium heat. Add the onion and green pepper, and sauté for 3 minutes. Add the coconut sugar, tamari, garlic, bouillon base, chili powder, onion powder, smoked paprika, sea salt, and black pepper, and cook for another 2 minutes. Add the ground round, crushed tomatoes, and Worcestershire, stir to combine, and cook for another 5 to 6 minutes. Cover the pan, lower the heat to medium-low, and cook for 20 minutes, until reduced, thick, and darker brown. Preheat the oven to 425°F. Spoon the sloppy joe mixture generously into the zucchini boats, piling the mixture above the edges. Top with the vegan cheese shreds and sprinkle the bread crumbs evenly on top of each. Bake for 35 minutes, until the zucchini is tender and the cheese is melted. Broil for 3 to 5 minutes to crisp up the top, if necessary. Excerpted from Hot for Food All Day by Lauren Toyota. Copyright © 2021 by Lauren Toyota. Published by Penguin Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. Reproduced by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved. Next, try Lauren Toyota's peanut butter and jam oat bars. The post This Vegan Sloppy Joe Dish Makes a Healthy Comfort Food appeared first on Best Health Magazine Canada.

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Loki Series: Lady Loki Timeline Targets By CP Singh -June 22, 2021076 Loki Series: Lady Loki Timeline Targets: Lady Loki blows the sacred chronology into turmoil at the end of Loki’s current episode, the Time Variance Authority is left scrambling. Lady Loki, played by Sophia Di Martino, is a female version of the God of Mischief who has been wreaking havoc on the TVA by luring in Minutemen, killing them, and stealing their reset charges. According to the official TVA terminology, the reset charges “prune the afflicted radius of a branched timeline, enabling time to heal all its wounds” and are used to shut down rogue timelines. They disintegrate everything in their surroundings, as Loki put it more bluntly. Join Newznew on Telegram Lady Loki finally reveals her actual intention after gathering dozens of these reset charges and scattering them across time and space, thereby blasting the holy timeline and causing the chaotic universe that the TVA was designed to prevent. Loki Series: Lady Loki Timeline Targets It’s plausible that Lady Loki chose random targets for the reset charges because they’d still achieve their purpose of rupturing the holy timeline no matter where or when they ended up. She could, on the other hand, have been attempting to influence specific events in order to alter the universe to her liking. The TVA’s screens display some of the times and locations where the reset charges were transmitted when they were triggered. Here’s where Lady Loki bombed (and when), as well as the possible futures she spawned. Niflheim Hela uses a storm to slay the Valkyries. Lady Loki has her sights set on several, if not all, of the Nine Realms, including Niflheim. Niflheim is a region of ice, mists, and frost that is linked to Hel, the domain of the undead, according to Norse mythology. Niflheim was the home of Thor: Ragnarok villain Hela for millennia in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and she was trapped there by Odin for millennia. Loki tangled with Hela in Ragnarok in the main timeline, so Lady Loki may have met paths with her as well. Also Read : Regular Medical Care and Remaining Positive can overcome any illness says Tahira Kashyap Guardians Of The Galaxy: Knowhere Knowhere, formerly the head of a Celestial, is now only a floating skull in space. It is home to a mining colony whose residents make a living by extracting brain, bone, and spinal fluid from Celestials who have died. When Sif and Valstagg handed over the Reality Stone to the Collector for safekeeping in Thor: The Dark World’s post-credits scene, Knowhere made its first MCU appearance. When the Guardians sought out the Collector to sell the Power Stone to him in Guardians of the Galaxy, it was more thoroughly investigated. Lady Loki might have been after one of these Infinity Stones, or she might have been after one of the many other precious items. Vormir Vormir, a barren planet drenched in purple light, was the only place where the Soul Stone could be obtained – and everyone who wanted it had to pay a high price by sacrificing all they cared about. Gamora, who was killed by Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War, and Black Widow, who sacrificed herself in Avengers: Endgame so that Hawkeye could get the Soul Stone, are two important MCU characters that have died there. A reset charge hit Vormir on April 23, 2301, according to TVA screens. Her is a considerable time after the deaths of Gamora and Black Widow, as well as the destruction of the Soul Stone by Thanos, thus it’s unclear what type of branching timeline Lady Loki has produced with this strike. Asgard Surtur destroyed Asgard after the end of Thor: Ragnarok, as the Loki variation finds while reviewing his case file at the TVA. It does, however, exist at the moment that Lady Loki’s reset charge is sent: February 16, 2004. This is seven years before Loki discovers that he is a Frost Giant who was abducted from Jotunheim as a newborn, hence Lady Loki may have created yet another Loki variety by arriving at this moment in Asgard’s past. On August 13, 1984, one of Lady Loki’s reset charges was dispatched to Sakaar, continuing the tour of Thor: Ragnarok sites. Sakaar is a rubbish planet in the Tayo star system controlled by the Grandmaster and ringed by wormholes that are constantly dumping fresh space trash for the local scavengers to rummage through. One of these wormholes, dubbed “The Devil’s Anus,” connects to many regions throughout the cosmos, so if the reset charge was mistakenly dragged into it, there’s no way of knowing where it ended up. Also Read : TVS Jupiter Crosses 500,000 Landmark Ego Ego is attempting to persuade Peter Quill to join the Guardians of the Galaxy as a member. Ego the Living Planet is Star-father Lord’s and, as his name implies, a living planet. Ego, as one of the ancient Celestials, was determined to pass on his Celestial DNA to a descendant and fathered hundreds of children around the galaxy, bringing them back to his planet form and executing them if they failed to display Celestial features. Although Star-Lord inherited Ego’s Celestial DNA, he murdered Ego at the end of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 to prevent the insane planet from taking over the entire universe. On December 27, 1832, Lady Loki sends Ego a reset charge, which could result in a timeline where Titan: Thanos Endgame of the Titans Titan, best known as Thanos’ home planet in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, was once a thriving civilisation that was ravaged by overpopulation and left as a barren wasteland plagued by electrical storms. This occurred long before the date on which the reset charge is sent, October 13, 1982, therefore Lady Loki may have been especially targeting Thanos rather than the Titans as a whole. Taking Thanos out of the equation would result in a future in which the Snap never happened and the Infinity Stones were never shattered, as well as preventing Thanos from killing Loki in the main timeline. Hala: Captain Marvel’s Hala Hala, the Kree Empire’s capitol and home planet, was prominently depicted in Captain Marvel. After losing her memories and being recruited to battle in the Kree-Skrull War, Carol “Vers” Danvers lived there for many years. On January 3, 54 CE, Lady Loki’s reset charge lands on Hala, millennia before Carol’s arrival and around a thousand years before the Kree-Skrull War begins. Also Read : VIDEOCON d2h Signs Partnership With Netflix for its HD Smart Connect Xandar Xandar, the capital of the Nova Empire, made its initial appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) in Guardians of the Galaxy, where the original Guardians (except Drax) met for the first time. Thanos tore Xandar apart in order to get the Infinity Stone held by the Nova Corps, and the population was devastated as a result. The reset charge arrives on Xandar on September 24, 1001, and it has the potential to profoundly alter the planet’s history. Jotunheim: MCU Jotunheim Loki’s birthplace, Jotunheim, one of the Nine Realms and home of the Frost Giants, receives one reset charge. An errant reset charge here might potentially wipe out all Loki versions by stopping him from being born, however, it’s unknown when the time bomb was sent. Avengers: Endgame Locations on Earth Ronin Hawkeye Most of the sites that appear on the TVA’s screens are on Earth, presumably because Lady Loki was especially targeting Earth, or perhaps because there are only so many non-Earth locations created in the MCU. There is a predilection for important cities such as New York, Rome, and Tokyo, but the dates don’t appear to have any relevance, supporting the hypothesis that Lady Loki is simply seeking to cause mayhem. The TVA’s screens show every Earth-based location being hit by a reset charge. Rome, Italy – October 3rd, 1390 Lisbon, Portugal – March 31, 1492 Phong Nha, Vietnam – August 3, 1522 Barcelona, Spain – 1540 Thorton, USA – October 25, 1551 Porvoo, Finland – July 14, 1708 Barichara, Columbia – February 2, 1808 Madrid, Spain – July 18, 1903 New York, USA – September 21, 1947 Tokyo, Japan – March 1, 1984 Kingsport, USA – August 2, 1999 Cookeville, USA – November 22, 1999 Beijing, China – November 23, 2005 Dartford, England – 2006

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.. Track 2.. of disc one.. Track 2.. of disc one.. of.. "The World of Hans Zimmer... a symphonic celebration... "... Track 2.. of disc one.. is the official, quintessential, haunting, sad-longing, archetypical music of.. of.. Lamont Cranston (Tom Hiddleston): ..".. see... I'm Lamont.. and I'm playing Loki in 'The Avengers' for Joss Whedon.. and my friend Steven Sharpe.. he's playing Tony Stark.. in the same movie.. in 'The Avengers'.. and I see this image.. this IMAGE.. on youtube.. this freeze-frame image on youtube... of me.. see.. as Loki.. I have this look of rage on my face.. and I'm... like.. I'm- mandhandling.. I'm.. seizing.. grabbing.. sorry.. I'm greviously injuring Steven Sharpe's face.. by.. putting my hand-.. like a-.. a grip.. on-.. on his face.. and he has a very handsome face.. Steven Sharpe (Robert Downey junior)... does.. and.. to even describe it-.. and.. I'm HAUNTED.. I'm traumatized by this image of my horror-violence against Steven Sharpe (Robert downey junior).. as Tony Stark.. as Tony-.. as Tony Stark.. and I keep on seeing it.. I keep on-.. seeing it.. on youtube.. on-.. on youtube.. and it's like.. this need for me.. to so falsely play Loki.. to so falsely play Loki.. to play Loki so very falsely.. to play him so very, very falsely.. as someone who CONTROLS.. as someone who.. controls.. who has this NEED to control.. physically.. control.. others.. innocent.. men.. ".. $3.. stochastic disturbance terms.. paul dini / joe benitez poison ivy pamela isley kate moss.. stochastic disturbance terms.. $3...

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.. position music - expectations.. is the official, quintessential music of.. if silver age, red-haired lana lang (scarlett johansson) was in captivity.. and she was in her bra and panties.. in captivity.. then would Lamont Cranston (Tom Hiddleston).. CGI-d to look like Stallone.. would he be dressed.. like Tarzan.. when he rescued her.. and the two Phantom Ladies.. Golden Age Phantom Lady (Sunyata Ryder) and Silver Age (Sunyata Horowitz) would be dressed in the Tarzan-garb of the Jane of the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan movies..

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.. Batman The Long Halloween Part One.. in an earlier.. distant, distant, hard-to-find post.. I made a huge mistake.. a HUGE mistake.. it's not Lex Luthor in prison at all.. in the animated movie.. 'The Long Halloween- Part One'... I thought he was Lex Luthor.. it's not him- at all.. at-.. at all.. it's Calender Man.. Julian Day.. in Arkham Asylum.. he looks EXACTLY like especially JLU Lex Luthor.. he looks EXACTLY like latter-day post-crisis Lex Luthor.. he does.. Julian Day Calendar Man does.. sob sob sob.. it's not so bad.. 4-year old Sarah Polley.. 12-year old Sarah Polley... sob sob sob sob sob.. Julian Day here.. the animated Lex Luthor-esque Julian Day.. is JUST as smart as Alexis Luthor.. I mean... his dialogue.. by the BRILLAINT voice actor of Julian Day here.. in this animated movie.. 'The Long Halloween - Part One'.. the animated Julian Day's spoken dialogue.. is truly labyrinthine.. and so deeply, deeply, highly intellectual that it's.. inpenetrable.. $3.. stochastic disturbance terms.. paul dini / joe benitez poison ivy pamela isley kate moss.. stochastic disturbance terms.. $3...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03WwdbO7oZk .. in the inwards of the above URL... "WwdbO7oZk".. WwdbO7oZk.. is.. aka. Wonder woman disco-biz Open-7 ontario Zeke.. $3.. stochastic disturbance terms.. paul dini / joe benitez poison ivy pamela isley kate moss.. stochastic disturbance terms.. $3...

.. Track 1.. of disc one.. Track 1.. of disc one.. of the soundtrack composed by Hans Zimmer and Junkie XL.. for the movie.. "Batman versus Superman; Dawn of Justice".. Track 1.. of disc one.. of this soundtrack.. Track 1.. of disc one.. is the official, quintessential music of.. of scorcese: ..".. 17 years... I spent 17 years on the pre-production.. production.. and post-production... of the movie 'Silence'.. which I directed.. a movie about missionaries in Imperial Japan.. I may spend more years.. than even 17 years.. more years.. than even 17 years.. on the pre-production.. production.. and post-production.. of the movie.. 'The Uncanny X-men 1'.. which I also.. direct.. ".. $3.. stochastic disturbance terms.. paul dini / joe benitez poison ivy pamela isley kate moss.. stochastic disturbance terms.. $3...

.. Track 6.. of disc one.. Track 6.. of disc one.. of "The World of Hans Zimmer... a symphonic celebration... ".. Track 6.. of disc one.. is the official, quintessential, archetypical music of.. of.. the transition.. the transformation.. the fluid transformation.. of the long, black, raven-haired Superwoman (Savanna Samson) of issue #1 of "Crisis of Infinite Earths".. into the wild, blond, tousled hair- Superwoman (Savanna Samson) of.. of.. "The Darkseid Saga".. written by Geoff Johns.. art by Jason Fabok.. $3.. stochastic disturbance terms.. paul dini / joe benitez poison ivy pamela isley kate moss.. stochastic disturbance terms.. $3...

.. Track 1.. of disc one.. Track 1.. of disc one.. the Ultra-haunted Hans Zimmer- Batman theme.. Track 1.. of disc one.. of "The World of Hans Zimmer... a symphonic celebration... "... Track 1... of disc one... is the official, quintessential music of... of... their are long corridors.. just like... precisely what long corridors are... are the long, dark, Lovecraftian, pitch-green- (.. blue...?..).. corridors which comprise and constitute the labyrinthine, legitimate Hell of the movie.. "Hellraiser 2; Hellbound", directed by Clive Barker.. the selsame corridors of the very opening of.. of.. the Golden age / intermission age.. chapter one.. 'Superman; man of tomorrow; chapter one'.. movie.. co-directed by Steven Spielberg and Sophia Copolla.. screenplay by Geoff Johns and Victoria Hill... the opening the very, very, very, very opening of that movie is the Lovecraftian Hellraiser 2; Hellbound-esque corridors of Krypton leading to a vista of 'Batman Begins Gotham'- esque Krypton with silver-capsule elevators in the distance.. and.. and.. then.. so their are corridors.. these corridors.. and their are.. Hallways.. brightly-lit Hallways.. long, long, brightly-lit Hallways.. and are these brightly, lit long Hallways.. are they just like-.. just like.. Teleportation-Chambers.. ?.. $3.. stochastic disturbance terms.. paul dini / joe benitez poison ivy pamela isley kate moss.. stochastic disturbance terms.. $3....

.. Track 6.. of disc one.. Track 6.. of disc one.. of the soundtrack composed by Hans Zimmer and Junkie XL.. for the movie.. "Batman versus Superman; Dawn of Justice".. Track 6.. of disc one.. is the official, quintessential music of.. of.. Crispin Glover does not like Ted Bundy.. Crispin Glover does not like Ted Bundy.. and Crispin Glover categorically.. uncategorically.. categorically.. does NOT.. want Christian Bale to exonerate Ted Bundy.. buy his Christian Bale playing a sympathetic, compassionate 'Ted Bundy'- Bruce Wayne.. $3.. stochastic disturbance terms.. paul dini / joe benitez poison ivy pamela isley kate moss.. stochastic disturbance terms.. $3...

.. is their a severe, intense.. overlap.. a Harold Bloom Parolles mutual identity.. between Edward Ketchum.. the son of Morris Ketchum.. Edward Ketchum.. and the other Edward.. Edward Nygma (Chad Michael Murray).. ?.. Edward Ketchum son or Morris Ketchum mentioned late in chapter 7.. I think it's Chapter 7.. titled.. 'Questions of Control'.. of Jean Strouse's book.. $3.. stochastic disturbance terms.. paul dini / joe benitez poison ivy pamela isley kate moss.. stochastic disturbance terms.. $3...

.. maybe.. Rusty Randakas.. should play the young, beautiful.. Fanny Tracy... who marries the young jesse eisenberg Pierpont Morgan.. perhaps around the year 1964.. Rusty Randakas playing the Cate Blanchett "Fanny Tracy".. as a younger woman.. also... their being severe, intense.. overlap.. between the selves.. the identities.. the identity-consciousnesses.. of beautiful soul Rusty Randakas Veronica Cale of Oolong Island... and young beautiful Fanny Tracy Rusty Randakas.. approximately a year and a half duration.. interum... before.. ?..-.. $3.. stochastic disturbance terms.. paul dini / joe benitez poison ivy pamela isley kate moss.. stochastic disturbance terms.. $3.... ...

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138328651729 Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express.logo19°C Find us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Find us on Instagram LOGINREGISTER Discount codesPuzzlesHoroscopesIn Your AreaShopPaper HOME NEWS SHOWBIZ & TV SPORT COMMENT FINANCE TRAVEL ENTERTAINMENT LIFE & STYLE FILMSGAMINGMUSICBOOKSTHEATREEXPRESS WINS HomeEntertainmentFilms Wedding couples can now be fined £10,000 if they fail to do this one thing Queen leaves royal experts baffled with 'jarring' behavioural change after Philip's death Sink your teeth into gripping dramas Acorn TV Meghan Markle and Prince Harry warned Spotify could 'take action' over £18million deal Queen SNUBS Prince Harry: Monarch won't attend Diana event during Duke's trip to UK by Taboola Uma Thurman ‘Turning down Lord of the Rings was one of the WORST decisions I’ve ever made’ UMA THURMAN almost starred in JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and really regrets turning it down. By GEORGE SIMPSON PUBLISHED: 07:57, Wed, Feb 22, 2017 | UPDATED: 08:10, Wed, Feb 22, 2017 0Comment sectionShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on PinterestCopy link Lord Of The Rings The Two Towers - Gollum and Sméagol Sign up for FREE now and never miss the top Royal stories again. Enter your email address here SUBSCRIBE When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they'll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy Notice explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. The Kill Bill actress appeared on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert earlier this week to promote her new TV series Imposters. During the interview Colbert asked Uma if the rumour that she turned down playing Eowyn in The Lord of the Rings was true. She replied: “Yes. It was a very long time ago, and I do consider it one of the worst decisions ever made. “But I had just had my first child, and I just – I don’t know, I was a little housebound… It’s really definitely a regret.” RELATED ARTICLES Why David Bowie didn’t play Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings REVEALED Lord of the Rings cast reunite in hilarious video uma thurman and lord of the rings poster YOUTUBE/NLC Uma Thurman ‘Turning down Lord of the Rings was one of the WORST decisions I’ve ever made’ eowyn with sword NLC Eowyn of Rohan was eventually played by Miranda Otto The news it was Eowyn, that Uma almost played, might surprise fans, as many have noticed how similar she looks to Cate Blanchett, who played Galadriel. Sponsored DocSleeves Knee Surgeons Are Losing It over These Breakthrough Knee Sleeves by Taboola In the end the part of Eowyn went to Australian actress Miranda Otto, who played the character in The Two Towers and The Return of the King. At one point Iben Hjelle was attached to the role, but she didn’t want to spend so much time away from Denmark. Last year it was revealed that David Bowie almost played Gandalf instead of Sir Ian McKellen. Hollywood cover girls 20 years on Fri, March 25, 2016 Some of the biggest stars in the world, like Nicole Kidman and Uma Thurman, posed for Vanity Fair's Hollywood class of 95 ...but how do they look 20 years on? PLAY SLIDESHOW Hollywood cover girls 20 years onGETTY/REX 1 of 12 Hollywood cover girls 20 years on Hollywood cover girls 20 years on Vanity Fair 1995 cover Julianne Moore then and now Patricia Arquette then and now Sarah Jessica Parker then and now Uma Thurman then and now Eowyn is a noblewoman of Rohan who Tolkien described as a shield maiden. She eventually falls in love with and marries Faramir, the younger brother of Boromir. RELATED ARTICLES New Lord of the Rings film Middle Earth CONFIRMED Tolkien's Scots island retreat is for sale The Best Battle Scenes ever inspired by latest epic, The Great Wall Lord of the Rings Sink your teeth into gripping dramas Acorn TV|Sponsored

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Rumours on Eowyn and Galadriel – Cate Blanchett and Uma Thurman in LOTR by theoneringSep 26, 1999Lord of the Rings (Movies) Aram at Imladris received an email from a fan who received an email from New Line Cinema President Michael DeLuca with the following info: Thanks for the support. We’re actually considering Uma for Eowyn, not Galadriel, but we don’t know if she’ll do it yet. We’re trying to get Cate Blanchett for Galadriel. If you’ve seen the movie Elizabeth, I think you’ll agree that Cate Blanchett is indeed “grave and beautiful” as Galadriel is described. I hope this rumour proven true! Cool Stuff for Fans! Lord of the Rings Tree of Gondor T-Shirt Mordor Fun Run Map of Middle-earth Canvas Print ← Prev: Uma and Ethan Anonymously Confirmed - Film Unlimited says they have a source...Next: Suite101: Where Are the Aragorn and Arwen Web Sites? - Michael Martinez' J.R.R. Tolkien and Middle-earth →