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Franklin Roosevelt last week suffered the worst defeat that he has met since entering the White House. Defeat could hardly have stung so much even on that November morning 17 years ago when he awoke to find that nearly two Americans out of three preferred Calvin Coolidge to Franklin Roosevelt for Vice President-or at least Harding to Cox for President. This stung partly because he was now used to victory, partly because ill-advised advisers had kept him, to the last, confident of victory. Even when Vice President Garner convinced him that his Court Bill was beaten, he expected...
...scheme worked smoothly. Rumors of Nero's reappearance spread just like hornets, stung awake the disaffection already smoldering under Cejonius' inept rule. Varro, who had craftily let some bordering native princes in on his secret, withdrew from Cejonius' jurisdiction and watched the Roman frontier go up in flames. A few hints to Protege Terence had been enough to set him practicing Nero's every remembered gesture. Soon he was fit to be seen by everybody but his wife, who thought he had gone crazy. For a while everything went so well that Varro began to think...
According to John Van de Poele, Massachusetts' Chief Bee Inspector, at least 17 people were stung to death by bees in New England last year. Inspector Van de Poele, who wears a bathing suit while tending his own bees, has been stung almost daily for eleven years, considers himself totally immune to bee poison.* But physicians say that, like other persons who have developed ordinary bee immunity, he too could be killed instantly by a single sting on a vulnerable spot, the jugular vein, perhaps, or a major nerve...
...down had cost the "national economy" hundreds of millions of dollars, the average citizen shrugged and went on about his business. But the Hershey Sit-Downers were sitting squarely on the pocketbooks of neighboring farmers who sell the chocolate company some $14,000 worth of milk per day. Stung to action, the deprived dairymen last week made a milestone in the history of the Sit-Down...
...little triumph-if it creates over-optimism-may do harm." So hard had the Whites been stung northeast of Madrid, though they were getting an offensive under way from the south, that General Miaja doubtless feared the enemy would in exasperation use poison gas for the first time in Spain's present war. The White's blatant "Radio General" Queipo de Llano ominously broadcast that White Generalissimo Franco "has enormous supplies of gas, but will not use it, unless Madrid uses it first." In Moscow jubilant Izvestia cartooned an Italian general squealing from Spain to Mussolini for help...