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...back of the barn, with New England's Republican governors and others, Tom Dewey got a lot of politicking done. He heard some things he did not like. The governors frankly discussed the great amount of favorable talk for General Ike Eisenhower. Massachusetts' politically wise Governor Robert Bradford told Candidate Dewey that he would not be a shoo-in for the 1948 nomination; Bradford said he thought an early-ballot nomination was not possible and some of the other governors nodded agreement. Take Massachusetts, said Bradford: its delegates were going to be for Favorite Son Leverett Saltonstall...
Individual pictures of every house, barn, and building in the Square area followed, from which the small models were designed. They are now painted in detail on three sides, the fourth side not being visible to spectators who file past in the years to come...
...those who saw him, though not in Wall Street ("They hate me and I welcome their hatred"). In his old stamping grounds around Hyde Park, he was generally ignored. Once when he got lost near Rhinebeck, he turned into a farm for directions. "The farmer was painting his barn and the Boss drove up beside him. 'Can you tell me where the Halton place is?' the President asked. The farmer looked down at . . . the President, spat a pint or so of tobacco juice past the car, and motioned. 'Down there, about a quarter of a mile...
...presently withdraw. The real conversions will remain, but nothing else will. In that sense we may be on the brink of a real, permanent Christian revival: but it will work slowly and obscurely in small groups. The present sunshine ... is certainly temporary. The grain must be got into the barn before the wet weather comes...
Lose It on Zinc. When he was 18 and still on the road, Owen met Bertie Keen, who married him, taught him to read & write and joined his business as a bookkeeper. In 1922, they opened a trading barn in Kansas City's stockyards, slowly developed it into a center for a widespread trading network...