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In that brave mood, Kiewit decided to whip Depression as well, began expanding while other contractors were pulling in their horns (his Brothers dropped out of the company). Shrewdly, he figured that public works would get a big play as a relief measure, and when the big New Deal projects...
Harry Truman is still talked about by hopeful Democrats as the only chance for the party if Stevenson refuses to run. Although Truman seems genuinely unwilling to run, and fears for his health if he should try to spend another term in the White House, a draft-Truman movement is...
Over the Cigars. The brothers settled down to wait and passed the time by fleecing eleven men who wandered, one by one, into the white frame bank during the robbery. Hugh, the local paper reported later, "spying a box of Mr. Noblitt's cigars . . . passed them around to the...
For the third straight year the 17 Princeton upperclass eating clubs accepted 100 per cent of the sophomore class into their ranks. The goal of placing over 700 men in the club was reached in the record time of two days after bidding began.
It was not until early in the afternoon that Philip got the news (by telephone from a local newspaper) that changed their lives. He sent an equerry to call London for confirmation, then gently led his wife down to the river's edge and told her that her father...