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...going to need all that wild piratical blood. My ancestor (remember Commodore Edward M. Preble of Old Ironsides fame) rode into this Ohio country as an itinerant Methodist preacher . . . a pistol in his belt and a jug of Monongahela whiskey tied to his saddle. He was a pioneer, ripe for a fight or a frolic at any moment. He found both, aplenty...
...being frustrated and defeated in its attainment by our present monetary policy." Said her brother, Charles M. Thomsen of Seattle: "It's a pretty deep subject. I'm a Republican myself." Down from Vancouver, B. C. flew George Milburn, her son, convinced that the time was not ripe for his mother and Greenbackery to sweep the U. S. On second thought last week, the only woman Presidential candidate quit...
Corsica, which produced Napoleon, who Mussolini insists was Italian, is an objective Italy should have little difficulty achieving. Malta, which belonged to the Knights of St. John before Napoleon took it in 1798, is solid rock and should come harder. Last week she let Corsica wait like a ripe plum, bombed Malta 25 times and laid mine barrages stretching both sides of it to bisect the Mediterranean and divide the enemy warships...
...Cultivated fields, in which harvests will soon be ripe for the German conquerors, were virtually unscathed by bombing or artillery fire...
...Axis Powers intended to concentrate on France and Great Britain. But the small nations knew that this was only a respite. The Balkans, the Near East, Africa were ripe for what Japan's Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita recently called the imminent "world liquidation," the coming triumph of the Havenots...