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...night of Dec. 2, the gas heater in our home became unruly and gave off carbon monoxide fumes. At six-thirty I felt very ill and went upstairs where I became so ill that I could not stand. My wife came upstairs also and threw herself on the bed and called me twice. I was so far gone that I did not hear her come upstairs nor did I hear her call me. When she dragged herself to the bathroom door and announced that she too was so sick that she could hardly stand I realized that we were both...
...threw down his milk bucket and went to Grinnell College. When he returned to farming it was as an owner. But every time he thought of the newspaper business his left eye twitched with excitement (a habit he still retains) and finally he got a partner to manage his Iowa farm and went to Redfield, S. Dak. (pop. 2,664) to edit a newspaper. At 30 he was made editor and manager of the influential Montana Farmer at Great Falls...
Mussolini used Liberalism as a tool to destroy the existing order, then he threw it aside. The same was true of Lenin and Hitler Liberalism is simply a weapon, in the present American crisis, for the purpose of destroying the ideals and institutions that have made us the best, most advanced and happiest nation in the world. If we are to survive, so-called Liberalism must be replaced by our time-worn methods that have stood the test...
...three stockholder representatives of the board (which also contains three Hupp distributors and three factory representatives, among them Mr. Hastings) still include Messrs. Hayden and Rosenthal, leaving Promoter Andrews, the third, in the minority. Last week Mr. Andrews dismissed President Young's departure as a mere gesture: "They threw him to the wolves...
...money and little to do for it; even before the War gave them an excuse to run wild, some of the Sewalls were slipping from the pioneer virtues. But Granddaughter Sally had good stuff in her; she sympathized with her Granny. Wartime and love's young dream threw her and Alan into each other's arms. For a while things got very serious for all the Sewalls. After the War Sally settled down to be a young matron; Alan went into the bank. Their personal crash came as the boom years ended. But Sally rescued her marriage from...