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Most Democrats took him at his word and excluded him from their 1932 plans. For two years he sank out of political sight while his Empire State Building began to lift its high head over Manhattan. But when the 1930 Congressional elections came, Al Smith like an old warhorse, sniffed the smoke of battle. Massachusetts Democrats wanted him to help elect Marcus Allen Coolidge to the Senate. He went to Boston and received an ovation that for noise and fervor equaled his 1928 welcomes. Democrat Coolidge was elected over Calvin Coolidge's Republican candidate. The Brown Derby still had plenty...
...much for one Negro drummer from the Charles Young Post of Charlotte, N. C. Swinging his drum to his shoulder, he dropped out of line, mopping a wet brow. He craned his neck at the Selfridge Field planes and with a sigh, sank to a resting position on his instrument. The crowd swallowed...
...purposely?" queried M. Doumer. "Not purposely?" The President sank into alternate coma and delirium, seem ingly worried about why anyone should have wished to run him down, moaning occasionally, "Strange, I remember nothing...
...infuriated beast down the chute just as Pickett started up out of the car door. The ancient cry, "The Lady or the Tiger," became "Pickett or the Bull." Pickett grabbed the beast by the horns, crouched, finally knelt in an effort to throw it. Failing, in desperation, he sank his teeth into the animal's nose, subdued it-which is not strange when we recall that ancient Sicilians and others challenged and fought by "ear biting.". . . J. KRAKAUER...
...stock) from a well-known British inventor, agreed to split profits with him. Plummer got the story in the London Daily Mail, distributed reprints to the U. S. press. Circulars and telegrams were sent out by persuasive Hansell & Co. By March the price of Indian Motocycle reached $17, then sank to $5.50 in June when Plummer, and presumably the pool, abandoned it. The inventor of the air plane motor (never produced) "visited America, disposed of his shares and returned to England, contented but disgusted." Last week Indian Motocycle sold for 63?...