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...became the first U. S. Senator to be cleaned out by bandits. Stopped by a traffic jam, Senator Reynold was approached by several Mexicans. His story: "They were not abusive, only businesslike. I thought they were merely customs officials. When one of them took off my wrist watch and pocketed it, I realized they were highwaymen. Then he felt in my pocket and took out a roll of American bills [$200]. . . . When the bandits had finished with me, I walked ahead and saw Skewes Saunders, an Englishman who had previously been knocked unconscious when he resisted search. I noticed...
...First Assistant Postmaster General William Washington Howes, a rotund, nervous man who bounces when he walks, smokes cigarets continuously and is South Dakota's No. 1 Democrat. Wisconsin-born, he studied law at the University of South Dakota, landed in Wolsey to begin practice with $40 in his pocket. He spent $5 for a shingle, collected a $5 fee from a cowman client a few moments later. So popular was Bill Howes as a State Senator some 20 years ago that when a daughter was born to him the Legislature passed a special act naming her Mary Senate. Convivial...
Last fortnight Pledge Brown turned up again when a telephone operator at Manhattan's Hotel President complained that he had stolen her typewriter. Jailing him on her charges backed by the Forum and Scribner's, police found 22?, a complimentary letter from each magazine in his pocket...
...Harrovian Baldwin, knowing the Opposition to be impotent because the Government won Britain's last election on a platform of Eden idealism and has the victory safe in pocket, replied to Major Attlee: "Because I mentioned the question of oil from America, I have been accused of putting the blame on America. / put no blame at all on America...
...plugging hard not only at his studies but in his carpentry shop. This started when the King told his mother the Queen that he needed more spending money and Her Majesty replied that by making small wooden articles and selling them to courtiers His Majesty could make as much pocket money as would be good...