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...symbols of that flag of the American Hemisphere as if it were materially before my eyes: I see the lone star of the unified purpose of democracy, with the eagle of the North and the condor of the South-wings of democracy for its flight, claws for its defense-in the single light of that star portrayed in a white field of liberty and justice...
...Matsuoka resigned from the Service. Some said he found diplomatic discipline galling to his lone-cat temperament, his American education a liability in a service dominated by Tokyo Imperial University graduates. True to form, he reappeared on a higher rung five months later, as director, later president, of that octopus, the South Manchuria Railway. The South Manchuria Railway was no mere private enterprise; half its money was Government money, its policies were the Government's. The Railway not only controlled some 1,300 kilometers of railroad, but operated steamships, harbors, coal mines, shale-oil plants, ironworks, chemical-fertilizer plants...
...Andrew Jackson Houston, 87, for 24 days U.S. Senator from Texas; in Baltimore. Appointed to fill the unexpired term of the late Dry Morris Sheppard, he was the oldest newcomer ever seated in the upper house. His father was the great Sam Houston, first and third President of the Lone Star Republic, hero of San Jacinto, one of the first two U.S. Senators from Texas. The lives of father and son spanned all but the first four years of U.S. history...
...Lone Eagle's comment when he heard that Germany had declared war on Russia: "A very, very unusual development. But I'm not at all surprised. It is something that requires profound analysis...
...inch, these blocks maintain the accuracy of micrometers and other gauges down to a ten-thousandth of an inch, thus make possible the interchangeability of parts, essence of mass production. Today, with production booming, the "Jo" blocks, always scarce, are spread as thin as management itself. Last week a lone machinist in a privy-sized Cleveland shop was easing the scarcity and making a lot of money...