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Symbol. Bill Douglas says that even without the Whitney scandal, the day had been carried. But the Whitney affair washed the slate clean. All resistance broken, the Exchange voted immediately for reorganization and for a new board of governors which included not a single Old Guarder, not even much-maligned Charles...
...Ichabod Cranelike surgeon whom a Civil War veteran described as "the homeliest man I seen since I saw Old Abe." During his farm boyhood his favorite reading was Dr. Foote's Family Physician, and Hertzler recalls with satisfaction the time when he walloped a mean teacher with a slate-it pointed to "the ability to act quickly, accurately and energetically...
...Their chosen leaders in order of authority were General José Sanjurjo, Marquis del Riff, General Manuel Goded, General Francisco Franco. General Sanjurjo was killed in an airplane crash near Lisbon, General Goded was captured, imprisoned and executed when he failed to take Barcelona. No. 3 of the original slate - General Franco - became head of the Rightist Army. Meanwhile, in turbulent Leftist Madrid, Premier Casares Quiroga stepped down, to be succeeded, in a day of whirlwind Cabinet shiftings, first by the now-forgotten Diego Martinez Barrio, then by Republican José Giral Pereira...
...Adams, Faber Co. of Montclair, N. J. Architects: Franklin Roosevelt and Arthur Tombs of Manhattan and Atlanta (who laid out Georgia Warm Springs Foundation). Cost: $15,000. Name: "Dutchess Hill." Style: Dutch colonial. Material: native stone (from old fences). Rooms: five (living-dining room 34 by 22). Roof: slate. Furniture: old mahogany. Telephones: none. Occupancy: November ("just in time to close it for the winter...
...felt that, by the consummation of some mysterious union he had become part of a dazzling realm of sunlight. By rolling over a slightly so that the burning tin touched his bare shoulder, sending a delightful spasm of pain through his core, he could see down the steep slate roof to the turgid Charles far below, wandering aimlessly between green banks and slatternly factories...