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...remember the bottom dropped out, and then dropped out again, twice. It was the weather. It wasn't the pilot's fault and it wasn't the airplane's fault. I came to twelve or 15 times, I just don't remember. I knew where I was and what had happened, but I was kept so busy trying to keep the flies off and trying to move the body from me, and then I'd go back to sleep...
...acquaintance so that our young man does not take a wife among other nations. ... If you don't wish to look after this matter our young man will take a gentile wife which thing won't please the Eternal. It won't be our fault since we know no refugee girls...
...knock-down-drag-out fight in the middle of Los Angeles' Santa Monica Boulevard. While the Spreckelses whaled away with enough vigor to leave each other bruised about the head and ears (see cuts), crowds gathered and rooted. But the finish lacked punch. "It was all my fault," cried Lou Dell. "All right, honey," comforted Spreckels, "I don't care ... I know that we shouldn't be doing this. We might be hit by traffic." Explained Spreckels to the world at large: "It was just one of those family arguments...
...anyone did not know the makeup of the train, it was not the fault of Engineer Taft. He had put it together in the yards of the 80th Congress, where virtually every piece of major legislation had been given his boost or his boot. Frankly, loudly, obstinately and often, he had declared his stand. Some of his views (his opposition to David Lilienthal, to universal military training, to the State Department's Voice of America) had brought a storm of criticism. Other views (on the labor act, on tax-cutting) had won him both praise and condemnation. But nobody...
...Whitton report found fault with almost every phase of the Alberta welfare system ("incredibly centralized and bureaucratic . . . operating of its own volition with arrogance"). But its most scathing criticism was aimed at the Alberta child-adoption system, presided over by Superintendent of Child Welfare Charles B. ("Uncle Charlie") Hill...