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...moving to higher ground. Pittsburgh's "Golden Triangle," the downtown district where the Monongahela and Allegheny meet to form the Ohio, got its feet wet near the river banks, but there was no likelihood of a repetition of last March's 46-ft. flood stage. West Virginia bore the flood's brunt in the upper Ohio valley. Rising 2 in. an hour toward a 47-ft. crest, the river submerged residential Wheeling Island and the Red Cross ordered its 10,000 inhabitants evacuated. Bus and trolley service was virtually abandoned and, with mills crippled and mines flooded...
...President had a halfbrother. James Roosevelt, his father, first married Rebecca Rowland. She bore him one child, a son who was named James Roosevelt Roosevelt. He had a minor diplomatic career, died in 1927. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was not an only child. One brother, Elliott, died in 1893, aged 4. Surviving brother, Gracie Hall Roosevelt, onetime (1930-32) Controller of Detroit, is currently promoting a combination bus and rail...
...Republican Vermont went Republican Maine one better in 1936 by refusing a $10,000,000 National Parkway gift while Maine accepted Passamaquoddy. Yet to make doubly sure, the Green Mountain State still rears Vermonters as independent of her Republican traditions as Stephen A. Douglas, the Little Giant whom she bore and nursed at her Abolitionist breast to lead the last Democratic stand against Abraham Lincoln...
...Uhlans and Jean killed. Fannie, his wife, had a German soldier billeted in her cottage, and at last, because it seemed the natural thing to do. she let him take her husband's place. Then the German went to the trenches to be killed, and when Fannie bore his baby the village was willing to let her starve. Jean's brother Marc, a stalwart priest, got his atheist friend Gaure, a chemistry professor, to help him rig up a homemade wireless, to get news of the outside world. Before they knew it, both were involved...
English Queen Mary's brother, the Earl of Athlone, Governor of Windsor Castle, bore the delay without appearing bored, but the Duke of Kent, who some years ago was mooted as a bridegroom for Crown Princess Juliana (she was later a bridesmaid at his wedding), fidgeted and fumed with the "shyness" notable in all sons of King George V. A Dutch Cabinet Minister passed around chocolates, and these the Dutch and German guests beamishly consumed. The British would not eat in a Dutch church, as "it isn't done in England," and the shyness of Kent became each...