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...which a great Loree System was only a dotted line, and stand there cursing softly. Or he would sit slumped behind his desk banging a stack of five-dollar gold pieces from one hand into the other and express himself bitterly to curious interviewers: "Hell, I don't see how those fellows have the face to talk the way they do. But you can say anything if you keep a straight face...
...county warrants but I could not get them cashed. . I have a drawer full of them. ... A destitute farmer near the school makes and furnishes the whiskey. I retail it for him. . . . Bootlegging isn't as profitable as one would think. But I make a few dollars. Hell, I have to live...
...willed his textile mills to his sober youngest son. Charles A. Cannon proved the wisdom of this move by running them so ably that in 1918 the U. S. soldiers who were smoking Camel cigarets were drying themselves with Cannon towels embroidered with such fiery legends as "To Hell with the Kaiser" and "In God We Trust." By 1930, Charles A. Cannon had introduced the vogue for colored towels; the Cannon mills made 65% of the towels in the U. S. It might therefore have seemed that a wedding between Anne Cannon, daughter of the oldest of old James Cannon...
...arrived in Biloxi, Miss., on the Zemurray yacht one cold December night in 1910 on their way to Honduras, Samuel Zemurray went below and cooked a dinner for Manuel Bonilla, next President of Honduras. He left his coat over the shoulders of shivering General Bonilla. Said he: ''Hell Manuel, I've shot the roll on you. I might as well shoot the coat too." He is now shooting his roll on United Fruit and few expect him to lose...
...acute. more complicated; then it seems to simplify itself into inevitable war. Walter Bullinger does his mild best but it is not good enough. If bright young Jane Campbell, his assistant, and not-quite-so-bright John Shorland had not spoken out of turn, threatened to give the world hell, there would have been hell...