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...muddy water, a stranger registered in the Old Gilcher House, Danville, Ky., and was assigned to an attic bedroom with a dormer window, a shuck-mattress bed and tallow-dip candle, in the late '60s. The unknown guest demanded a decent room for the night, which infuriated the clerk who sized up the stranger and exclaimed: "That room is plenty good for the looks of you." Instantly the infuriated "surveyor" wrote across the page of the hotel register: "Surveyors: Locate the road just far enough away from Danville so its citizens can barely hear the whistles blow...
Said Vice President Garner from pious Texas: "Is there objection to the present consideration of the joint resolution?" Placid silence followed. The clerk read the resolution. More placid silence marked the automatic passage of S. J. Res. 21. Not unusual is it for the Senate to adopt a resolution permitting erection of a monument to a Civil War cavalry colonel who was also a great Republican orator. But altogether unusual was the Senate's action when the soldier-orator had an even greater fame as an antiChristian, a man who, were he still alive, would have picked...
...colorless, reticent onetime drug clerk, Dr. Moyer was snatched from an undistinguished career as a clinical pathologist to guard Pittsburgh's health. Around him last week swirled the same charges of suppression which were piled on Chicago's Health President Bundesen after he made his long-delayed announcement of the amebic dysentery epidemic last autumn. It seemed evident that Pittsburgh's Health Department had suspected something wrong since mid-January, when McCreery's and another pet shop received dead and dying birds in shipments from California. The Department quarantined all the birds for ten days, then...
...campaign to recruit labor. When the public saw the photograph it concluded that Boxer Dempsey had really become a riveter to escape the draft. Last week there was hardly a ripple when another great fisticuffer actually did go into the shipbuilding business. James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney was a shipping clerk and went to War with the Marines while Jack Dempsey was posing as a riveter. Five years ago Tunney married Polly Lauder, Carnegie Steel heiress. Last week he was elected a director of New York Shipbuilding Corp., controlled by Motorman Errett Lobban Cord. Presumably he will represent the Lauder interests...
...managed to do his composing in the same room with a squabbling family bridge game. Other dwellers under the stormy roof were his peasanty wife, a fat daughter and her secretive husband, a loafing son with whom Bruno was always on the verge of a dangerous quarrel, a superannuated clerk who idolized Bruno but hated the rest of them, and Anitra, Bruno's youngest daughter and his favorite. Temperamental herself, and expert at mimicry, Anitra was also hardheaded. When she discovered how tradesmen were cheating her mother she took over the housekeeping, held the public purse. When she decided...