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...begun without good provision of money beforehand . . . is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews...
...might be comic were it not so dangerous. The previous high was in 1946 when Truman's Secretary of Commerce, Henry A. Wallace, made a speech in Madison Square Garden calling for appeasement of Stalin. Wallace swore that he had personally shown the speech to Truman beforehand, but nobody ever figured out whether the President changed his mind after the speech was delivered, or whether he didn't realize what it meant in the first place. The White House announced that Harry Truman did not intend to fire Matthews as he had Wallace...
...right of office, was the presiding panjandrum at the nation's annual rite of spring, the Washington Senators' opening ball game. Showing off his ambidexterity, he looped out one ball with his right and another with his left hand and the game was on. He had predicted beforehand that the Senators would beat the Philadelphia Athletics, 5-3, sat with Bess and Margaret -drinking soda pop and munching popcorn-until they...
...after raid on the villages near his forest, looting the homes and shops of the patels, and cutting off their noses. The villagers liked Visa, because the patels were a privileged group, and the villagers were glad to see their bosses' noses cut off. Visa announced his raids beforehand, and forced the shivering, delighted village girls to dance at his command. He never harmed women, even if they were patels. But in two years, in 30 villages, he cut off 250 patel noses with his sharp kukri. Before and after each raid he visited his temple and renewed...
...House also brings popular poets in for readings, and a few interested students get to eat with the celebrities beforehand. And there is the annual House dinner--this year Reinhold Neibur will speak...