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After the Lewis speech the delegates, pounding, shouting, waving their banners, unanimously adopted a motion calling for a special assessment of $1 on each member to raise a war chest for the drive on Ford. "We'll be in before snow flies," said Homer Martin. That was the signal for a long demonstration with the convention band blaring Solidarity Forever...
...preacher of burning zeal, Fray Junipero moved his people to penitential awe with such mortifications as applying a torch to his bare chest and beating it with stones. With a party of 15 he visited the missions of Lower California, then struck north into new and unsaved territory. At San Diego in 1769 he established Upper California's first mission which was, like all the others, a civil as well as a spiritual outpost. A mission consisted of a church, a residence of the fathers, a presidio or military guard, shops and workrooms in which to instruct Indians...
...later reprinted in a book of essays, called "Bull In The Afternoon" which concluded: "But some circumstance seems to have laid upon Hemingway a continual sense of the obligation to put forth evidence of red-blooded masculinity ... a literary style, you might say, of wearing false hair on the chest." Author Hemingway called for a mutual baring of bosoms. What next occurred is the subject of variorum accounts. Author Eastman's version: "I knew he could knock me out quickly in a boxing match, so I grappled with him and threw him on his back across Max Perkins...
...down on streetcar tracks outside a Brooklyn police station, refused to budge. As soon as one sit-downer was removed, another took his place. Women fought, scratched, screamed. Policemen finally sent the sit-downers scrambling. At week's end 20 C. I. O. unions pledged $100,000 war chest to carry on against the "miniature Tom Girdlers of the shipbuilding industry...
...Robinson grew red and angry. A few moments later his heart began to flutter and pain ran through his chest. He went out on the terrace to sit in a rocker until he felt better. He decided to take a day of rest. He held a conference with Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky and other lieutenants who were leading his Court fight, then returned home although he could not well be spared from the fight...