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Hardly less spirited than the Herald Tribune was the Boston Herald: "The President's executive order is an amazing document . . . argumentative, bad-mannered, and offensive. . . . The alleged discourtesy of Colonel Lindbergh in giving out his letter to the President prematurely seems an act of studied, Chesterfieldian deference in comparison...
...book is heartily recommended to those who like the flavor of the old West, but are fed up with fake thrillers. It is a document in the history of that genuine Western culture, primitive as it was, which the expansion of the nation swept away. The only account comparable to it in conveying the real note of the cowboy era is that brief description written by Samuel Eliot Morison (of all people!) in the "Oxford History of the United States...
...there was not a building, a teacher, or a pupil to which the historians might point as the beginning of the University that celebrates September 3, 1636 as the date of its origin. On that day, no official document was issued, no plans were laid, and no founders gathered around a council table...
...altogether probable that had not Washington been there, the Constitutional Convention would have never agreed on the submission of any document at that time. CHAS. J. SMITH...
...other duties and sallied forth from the Senate accompanied by J. Mark Trice, Deputy Sergeant at Arms and official Storekeeper. Sergeant Jurney wore grey striped trousers, a cutaway, a black 10-gal. hat, a heavy overcoat with a red handkerchief hanging out of its pocket. He carried a document signed by Vice President Garner directing him to "take into custody the body of the said William P. MacCracken before the bar of the Senate." A few minutes later in an office in the National Press Building, Mr. MacCracken held out his hand exclaiming: "Hello, Mr. Jurney...