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...Platform for the first time a declaration for a Change. On the roll call seven States voted solidly for Repeal; ten more showed a majority against the Administration plank. The populous Republican states of New York. Pennsylvania, Illinois. New Jersey, Connecticut, Michigan and Indiana all threw their weight against the White House. The fact that President Hoover was able to carry his plank at all was due to the votes of obedient job-holding delegates. The G. 0. P., South prevented Northern Republicans from committing their party to Repeal...
...attorney for Texas & Pacific, he was spotted by the late Tycoon Edward Henry Harriman, who quickly made him head of all his lines, appointed him administrator of his estate. As president of both Southern Pacific and Union Pacific he fought savagely against Federal segregation. When defeated in 1913, he threw in his lot with Union Pacific. His only son, Robert Abercrombie, is a partner of Manhattan's Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co. Died. Herbert Dickinson Ward, 71, author, onetime editor of Youth's Companion, (merged in 1929 with American Boy), onetime editor of the Boston Post; in Portsmouth...
That was all that was needed. Spitting on their hands, the Fascists moved in. Somebody threw a chair which knocked out a Communist. Somebody else slashed the face of neutral Social Democrat Jurgensen. Inkwells, water bottles, desk drawers, chairs, ledgers, broken table legs went into the fray. Neutral deputies fled for their lives, others marooned on the speakers' dais spent a frantic quarter of an hour ducking missiles and wringing their hands. Safe in their odds of 3 to 1, the Fascists soon drove the last Communist from the Chamber, spent the next half-hour triumphantly roaring...
Barbara learned what she could about medicine in a year, knocked difficulty after difficulty flat. The small boat that was taking her ashore at São Maharo nearly foundered. The sailors threw overboard her two truckloads of supplies and her bag of clothes, then turned and rowed back for their ship. But Barbara was going in the other direction. She dived from the teetering gunwale and began swimming for the dark beach...
...butcher sharpening a knife. The butcher plunged his knife into a pig's throat, Spitfire smelled blood, burst from his cage, leapt over the side. Beastcatcher Buck felt his hair-roots tingle as a shark's fin cut the water near the swimming leopard. The shark struck, threw the leopard clear of the water, holding to his hindquarters...