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Vanderbilt's daughter said befo' she died dey wuz two mo' roads dat she wanted tuh ride, When ev'vy body wonduh what roads dem could be, 'twuz de Eas' Coloraydo an' de Santy...
...work. It is jammed - may I say in three classic haunts, jimmed, gypped and some of it is ready to be junked." In the Administration Building of Chicago's Century of Progress a telephone bell tinkled. A clerk picked up the receiver, heard a voice: "This is George Dem. I'm on my way over to see your fair with a party of six." Minute later the Secretary of War and party rolled up in front of the Administration Building in a taxi. An out-of-breath reception committee greeted them, perspired with embarrassment, apologized that there...
...Chicago and found the country "backward in social legislation" (see p. 15), the President suddenly changed his mind. His message demanded no action from the outgoing Congress. Avoiding most controversial issues it was couched in such general, promising and reassuring terms that politicians took it simply as the Dem-ocratic platform for the 1934 Congressional election...
Said Messenger Parker: "I knowed dem banjo heads wuzn't representin' de true spirit of de University an' I was provoked an' wore out wid de way dey wuz actin'. ... He didn't tech me, no indeedy, fuh you see I has de body motion an' weaved...
...belonged to Mr. Ely Coleman at Chester." His pay as Senator: "It was regular. I got some more when I voted fuh some of the bills." Prohibition: "Now on this prohibition question I'm all right. . . . Fuh two reasons. Fus' we needs a little liquor and second, dem what wants it gits it whether they buys it or steals it." Why he left the Senate: "Cause o' de Ku Kluxes. I was staying at a colored hotel when word comes to me that de Ku Kluxes wuz killin' all de nigguhs, some by just plain killin...