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...month and spending $8,000,000. Cut further by the halt of payments from the Southern operators, the fund had dwindled away to a bare $14 million. There was no way out; except for emergency payments all pension and welfare benefits would be suspended forthwith...
...minister, finding only a cook and a maid at her residence, forthwith made plans for hiring a butler, a chef, an assistant chef, a parlor maid, a chambermaid and a personal maid, and announced that she was ready to give a few parties to further international understanding. Said she: "I came for service." Unfortunately, Grand Duchess Charlotte was out of the country, shooting grouse in Scotland, so the new minister could not even present her credentials...
...receipts with checks to cover the same amounts. In Dallas, Internal Revenue officials received an unsigned letter enclosing $105 and a Bible reference: "Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due . . ." (Romans 13:7) In Bari, Italy, Widow Teresa Porcaro looked at her tax bill, forthwith died of a heart attack...
...Democrats," Hathorn quoted Vaughan as saying, "have to stick together." When this did not win over Hathorn, Vaughan went further, confidentially confessed an amusing little indiscretion of his own. He had told Allied's president that molasses rationing was soon to end. The president, one Harold M. Ross, forthwith bought 500,000 gallons. But the general had been wrong: rationing didn't end at all and Ross was badly stuck. This, Vaughan said significantly, "could prove very embarrassing to me here at the White House...
That probably did it. Francis Cardinal Spellman, speaking from his elevated position in the hierarchy of the U.S. Catholic Church, spread his wrath across a letter to her and forthwith made it public...