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...this point another "governor" appeared. He was one Walter L. Aldrich of Shreveport. Mr. Aldrich was out of a job. So he went before a notary public and took the oath of office as governor, "just for the hell of it." Said he: "All good lawyers know that any one may take possession of, and retain, abandoned property...
...respective countries would be to steam across, place the ball of the thumb on the nose, make a disrespectful gesture, and steam back for more fuel", the Admiral remarked. "Each would wreak such havoc on the convoyed commerce of the other, however, that the publics would raise so much hell that the war would be stopped...
...placed it in a savings bank where it was drawing 3% interest when Wall Street men of Jewish persuasion argued him into investing it where they said he could get 10%. He was guilty only of being foolish. The attacks on him are sponsored by the imps of Hell...
...Brown Turner, copyreader on the Nashville Tennesseean, came an idea. Imps of Hell? It was a good name. With other local Legionaries he formed an organization for ''public worship, education and literary undertaking . . . separation of Church and State . . . temperance through the modification of the Volstead Act." He became secretary. Elected president was Lutheran Dr. Vogelpohl. 37, dentist, vice president of the Tennessee Dental Association, onetime commander of Nashville Pos; No. 5 of the American Legion. Headquarters were set up in the Bennie Dillon Building in Nashville. Welcoming male & female voters, the Imps set out to enroll...
...child, and persistent pondering of this problem drives him mad. He believes all the women of his household are allied against him, even his daughter (Maisie Darrell) and his old nurse (Haidee Wright). By the end of Act I he is rushing out into a blizzard crying: "To hell with all women!" At the end of Act II he hurls a lighted lamp at his wife. The final curtain finds him a gibbering, grinning lunatic bound in a strait-jacket...