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...members of President Buchanan's Cabinet. One day around Christmas, the President was startled by a hubbub in the hall. He asked arch-Southerner Mrs. Roger Pryor (Reminiscences of War & Peace) "whether the house were on fire." She explained that "the shouts were those of rejoicing over a telegram announcing the secession of South Carolina." "That evening, Southern leaders, after celebrating in the parlor of Senator Jefferson Davis," went to call on Buchanan. Mrs. Davis rushed "impetuously ahead to share the good news with the President...
...TIME'S implication by quotation marks that more than a division was allowed to pass . . . the permission was granted on June 25. . . . We had a telegram that the transportation had been completed . . . on July 14, which would have left a margin of only a little over two weeks. We also had had word that each train would take two days to cross Sweden and on that schedule it would take more than two weeks to dispatch "hundreds" of trains on single track lines (Sweden has no doubles), allowing also for ordinary traffic...
...Germans cannot do the bayonet with us," he continued. "They are not humanistic, they are mechanistic. They are chauffeur. During the last eight days we could get no food, no ammunition to the front, because the mules are all dead. From the front we receive telegram: 'Our eyes are drained from crying, please give us the order what to do.' From Athens we send 600 donkeys with the food and the ammunition. The spies advise the Germans and they kill the little donkeys from...
...unofficial Newport jester, whom she delicately peeled in her book "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age. She wrote that she had never been happy with him; of her present husband, once remarked: "I married Decies so I could attend the coronation." - - To the New York World-Telegram said Novelist John Steinbeck's wife, Carol, currently separated from the author: "I suppose every married couple faces a situation like this. Most women would go to Reno and call it a day. I want to see it through. . . . If we wait perhaps John and I will be all the better...
Last week the 44th gave regular soldiers acute pain once again. From Companies I and L of its 174th Infantry went a telegram to Isolationist Senator Burton K. Wheeler, protesting extension of the National Guard's year of service. At week's end Major General Clifford Powell announced that this breach of military discipline had been forgiven. Next day the 44th passed through Fredericksburg, Va. From the trucks showered penciled notes-more protest. Sample text: "One year's enough. Send this to your newspaper. . . . Why not take a vote among the National Guard...