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...Keys. Key Largo, Plantation, the Matecumbes, Indian Key, Long Key, Grassy Key, Fat Deer, Key Vaca, Pigeon, Knight's, Little Duck, Big Pine Key, Cudjoe, the Saddle-bunch Keys, Big Coppitt, Boca Chica?in less than three hours the train clicks off the distance over bridges, causeways and the lowlying limestone reefs which Henry M. Flagler's engineer, the late Joseph Carroll Meredith, utilized as ties for the Oversea Extension. In places, Gulf currents 30 feet deep swing eastward under the trestles...
...Walsh of Montana) his ancient proposal to amend the Constitution so that the President of the U. S. would be inaugurated on the 15th, and Senators and Representatives take their seats on the 2nd of the January following the November of their elections. This means of abolishing the "lame duck" sessions of Congress, and of putting the people's choice promptly into the White House, has been passed by the Senate before but rejected by the House...
Glass of Virginia, small, birdlike, came in and roosted quietly. So did "the duck hunting dentist," Shipstead of Minnesota, the one-man party (Farmer Labor). His popularity might distress a less determined man, for besides him the Senate numbers just 48 Republicans (nominally) and 47 Democrats. But Senator Shipstead can tell a Progressive hawk from a Republican handsaw. He signed up with four of the only-nominal Republicans?Nye, Frazier, Elaine, LaFollette?to demand action on farm relief, Federal injunctions and Latin American policies...
...whistled or gargled the words of his wan fables, a somewhat severe shade, one to be kept properly prisoned in the dusty darkness of a schoolroom desk. The urchins, now grown into babbitts or clowns or bigwigs, sang their geography, etched Spencerian parabolas into their copy books, played "duck on a rock" at recess, spelled out the stories in McGuffey's; then they walked home on dusty roads, swinging their book straps and talking to each other, stopping to cut their initials into fence rails or the bark of a tree. The songs they sang, the books they read...
...Scotch ancestors. "The only thing my Scotch blood doesn't make me close about is my golf score. I'm not at all stingy about that. If I shoot 100, I feel I'm playing an excellent game for me. I love golf." He likes duck shooting too but has no time for it. He has had no opportunity to travel out of the ninth Federal Reserve District-Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He has a daughter, aged 13, another, aged 10. He was only 18 when he went...