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...30?Memorial Day address by President Hoover; at Gettysburg...
...This dam and its waters do not need dedicating [cf. Lincoln's Gettysburg address: "We cannot dedicate this ground."] It is rather the people gathered here who need to be dedicated [of. Lincoln's Gettysburg address: "It is rather for us here to be dedicated."]* I do not suppose I am expected to speak to the dam and the water. Anything I might say to them would be of little effect. They will stand there unconscious in accordance with the laws of chemistry and physics and no utterance of mine will have any effect on them...
...casualties were bandaged and sent home. Speechless but undaunted, as befits a direct descendant of Tzintzicna, last of the 19 Tarrascan Kings who ruled under the Aztec Emperors of Mexico, President Ortiz Rubio insisted on scrawling a telegram to his two handsome sons Fernando and Guillermo, at school in Gettysburg...
Scrub Joke. When it is 6:55 a.m. at Gettysburg Academy in Pennsylvania, two short, swart Mexican youths tumble out of their beds and then proceed to make them. They agree with President Hoover that their father is the one and only President-Elect of Mexico. They are studious Guillermo Rubio, 18, and athletic Fernando...
...bought an old what-you-call flivver last fall," reminisces Guillermo. ''For weeks we rode around making much fun. But one day the flivver broke down six miles from Gettysburg and we left it there for a good joke...