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...first year in high school Fisher wrote a novel, had sense enough to burn it. At Chicago one of his instructors, Professor-Novelist Robert Herrick, advised him to eschew literary ambitions, told him he would never "write a novel worth opening." Fisher made better sense when, after boiling the pot by teaching English for several years at Utah and New York Universities, he went back to Idaho to write. His first novel, Totters of the Hills, got a good press, few sales. When his tetralogy began to appear no Eastern publisher would touch it. Idaho's Caxton Printers...
...drink Scotch. Scotch also starts with barley but the ingredients are better, notably its water." As Chairman of the Board of Directors of one of the large Irish Free State distilleries, and one of the Board of Directors of another Irish Free State distillery, who incidentally are the largest Pot Still distillers in the world, I would like to state that there is no unbiased whiskey expert in the world who will agree with the latter statement, and that there is no Irishman in Ireland who will agree with the former. In the first place, it might interest...
...impose a solution (Italy is not strong enough for that) but to make Rome the rallying point of all foes of the League-as-it-is. Let others suggest what the League should become; then, when official suggestions begin to roll in, Italy will add hers to the pot and Il Duce will try to emerge as Chief Cook...
...across the map of Spain little bands of anarchists and syndicalists were declaring general strikes, raising red and black flags, setting fire to convents and churches, taking pot shots at Civil Guards and soldiers. Troops were mobilized through most of Spain. Premier Diego Martinez Barrios declared a "State of Alarm," which he explained was not martial law, but the next thing...
...civil aviation in the New Deal his job was far bigger than that of either of his predecessors. Although his budget was slashed this year from $7,660,000 to $5,172,000, and his own salary cut to $8,000, Gene Vidal had a pot of new gold handy in the form of Public Works Administration money. Never before had civil aeronautics a chance to receive so many millions for subsidy. Not since 1929 had the industry's prospects looked more hopeful...