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...Idaho as Director of the Bureau of Mines. When told of Dr. Finch's fine technical qualifications for the job, the President had verbally approved the appointment and then sailed off on his holiday. When Dr. Finch's commission came over to the Bureau of Mines it bore, instead of the Presidential signature, a notation in Mr. Roosevelt's handwriting: "Hold for the PMG's approval." Mr. Farley had found out that Finch was a Republican...
...last two weeks before the Legislature adjourned, Senator Long's brisk management of Louisiana's affairs bore him rich legislative fruit...
...noon he boarded the Houston, which bore him away at 18 knots across a rainswept sea. Four hours later he landed in St. Thomas, V. I., was met by Governor Paul Pearson, carried up into the town to be greeted by cheering crowds. Kindly Governor Pearson and his goodhearted lady dined that evening with the President aboard the Houston, watched from its deck a procession of illuminated floats serenading the President, celebrating the Island's industries and beauty...
...Hiltons also cited the case of Rosa-&-Josepha Blazek, who were joined back to back, had one vagina, one rectum, but two uteri. Rosa bore a son whom both nursed. Later the pair were reported to have married one man. The 1918 epidemic of influenza killed them, aged 40, while in Chicago...
...Journalism, but put the presidential sceptre in the hands of a Hartley henchman named William Neal Winter, a practicing spiritualist with a "control" named Hugo. Asked Washingtonians: "Who really runs the University-Hartley or Hugo?" In 1932 Hartley (or Hugo), ostensibly for economy, smashed the Suzzalo system of Colleges, bore down on extracurricular activities, optional courses. That autumn Washington Alumnus Clarence Daniel Martin (Class of 1906) rode the Democratic landslide into the Governorship. President Spencer soon "asked" to be relieved of his job and given an English professorship. A new Board of Regents granted his first request, denied his second...