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...never aspired so high, was elected Senator, benefiting from the lists of dead people whom Tom Pendergast habitually voted every election. Five years later Pendergast was sent to the penitentiary for a $443,550 income tax evasion. Said Harry Truman: "I won't desert a ship in distress." Years later he added: "Tom Pendergast never asked me to do a dishonest deed. He knew I wouldn't do it. When Tom Pendergast was down and out, a convicted man, [people] wanted me to denounce him. I refused. . . . I wouldn't kick a friend." Newsmen who battled...
...actually the pressure equaled only 3,000 ft.), the familiar symptoms developed ; when they told him he was down to 3,000 ft. (actually the pressure was decreased to 17,000 ft.), he felt normal again. It was clear that his physical distress was entirely caused by a mental disturbance. He had a psychoneurosis. They sent him to a hospital for a rest...
...Nonnie's discovery that she is pregnant and that she wants to bear Tracy's child. Miss Smith handles well the scenes in the Anderson household, their pride in Nonnie as the most promising member of their educated family, their affectionate concern for her and their stupefied distress at the ghastly events that begin when Tracy, drunk, sick, increasingly demoralized, tries to buy a black husband for her. The town of Maxwell in the windless heat of Georgia midsummer, with a revival meeting in full swing, with nice girls (white) also discovering they are pregnant, sins being sweatingly...
...general store in Havre. Old Man Buttrey, now one of Montana's biggest merchants, still sees to it that the station pays more attention to the facts of Montana life than to Kate Smith and Jell-0, for instance. This winter, so far, has been fairly mild, and distress calls infrequent. But a prairie fire broke out last week on the exposed ranch lands 35 miles south of Great Falls. At 4:30 p.m. KFBB called for volunteers. Three hours later the sheriff told the station there were 500 on hand, and the fire was under control...
...Britain anti-Bulgar. They fear and hate the Turks, who ruled them for five centuries. They think that they have a right to keep lands snatched from Yugoslavia and Greece, but do not want to fight for these territories. In World War II they have found little profit, much distress, and by all indications they are getting ready to get out-if they...