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...President Wilson's Cabinet Messrs. Daniels, Wilson, Houston and Burleson served together for eight continuous years. I served with them six years and eight months. Lane served with them longer. Thus there were six men in that one Cabinet who served together longer than the trio mentioned in the article. I suggest you correct your statement...
...Pensacola, James Burleson, 13 months old, and Ida Bell Vann, 18 months, picked up objects that in color resembled chocolate candy, chewed down on them. The objects-fireworks, known as "dancing devils"- exploded. Badly wounded, the children bled to death...
...Story. Eighteen sixty-seven. Texas?immense, unorganized, full of cattle for which no profitable market could be found, cattle-rustlers, land-poor cow-barons and original sin. The Del Sol ranch?sole owner, Anastasie ("Taisie") Lockhart, redhaired, beautiful, 20-year-old orphan ?her father, Burleson Lockhart, had been murdered some years previously. Broke like the rest of Texas, Taisie was at her wits' end. Her cow hands were faithful, but she couldn't carry on forever with no money to pay them. Enter the mysterious Dan McMasters, sheriff of Gonzales, son of Burleson Lockhart's best friend...
...crew that we were under the impression the papers were being sent regularly. At any rate we know they will be hereafter for we proceeded, upon receipt of the wire, to direct our editorial wrath against the circulation department. Although he, the circulation department, called the shade of Burleson to witness that the copies had been mailed, we told him that we would hold him personally responsible for the safe arrival of the Crimsons...
...spite of the Southern Prohibitionists and the reactionary practices of Attorney General Palmer and Postmaster General Burleson, the individual Democrat, who is a Democrat on principle, has not lost these characteristics. The instincts of the great mass of Democracy still tend to keep it a party of the common people, not in the sense of the demagogue, but in the sense of Thomas Jefferson. They are still struggling whenever the opportunity offers and a free play of Democratic sentiment is permitted by party organization against those centralizing tendencies that are turning the Government of the United States into an autocracy...