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...night of his death, George Polk ate a hearty lobster dinner, perhaps in a waterfront café on dirty Niki Street. A short time later, Polk was shot point-blank from behind with a long-barreled gun, then tied up with 30 feet of rope. Probable scene of the crime: one of the countless coastwise vessels with which the harbor swarms. (To shoot Polk first and then drag his bleeding, trussed body through Salonika's streets could hardly have escaped notice; to lure him to a caique, and then shoot him in a below-deck cabin, would have been...
Then Jim Duff fired point-blank at the Grundy strategists. "If they want to get tough," said Big Jim, "I'll show them that I can get tough, too. I'm not looking for a fight but I certainly am not going to sit down and do nothing . . . Let them start something and see the heads fall...
...late, but he squeezed me in on a joint appointment with another history scholar for Friday afternoon. When I asked him point-blank, "out of curiosity," just how many boys he is now helping through Harvard, Cramer replied that he "would rather not say." But he admitted that he was a hard taskmaster: "If I were working for someone, I'd insist on a full hour for lunch. But I exploit myself...
...American Method. Finally, Bob Taft let go point-blank at Harry Truman. Republican Congressmen, faced with "clearing away the wreckage . . . of the New Deal," had met their problems with courage and directness. But in every crisis the President "has shown that he is still dominated by the principles of the C.I.O." Harry Truman "clearly believes in the New Deal doctrine of spending, spending, spending. . . . He believes in taxing, taxing, taxing. . . . He insists upon a health plan which will socialize our entire medical profession. . . . He has appointed to office those who believe in control by Government. He has violently opposed every...
...Henry Morgenthau [then Secretary of the Treasury] . . . kept wanting to know where he stood [with Truman] and finally, one day, put the question point-blank to the President. What happened then reminds me of the epitaph I once saw on a tombstone in a Western mining town :He kept asking for it until...