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...agents pulled abreast of the fleeing outlaws. Tires shrieked as the Ford swerved into a side road. The Federal car screeched and skidded about 100 ft. down the highway before Agent Hollis could bring it to a stop. By that time Nelson's woman had leaped out into a ditch. Screened by their engine hood, Nelson and his male companion were pumping machine gun bullets at the Federal men. From behind their own automobile the agents opened fire, Cowley with a machine gun, Hollis with an automatic shotgun. Each one had emptied his gun before he fell, riddled with bullets...
Despite air-tight censorship Japan's Cabinet was known to have split on the issue of economy v. militarism, with Finance Minister Fujii battling to the last ditch for a balanced budget. The last ditch in Japan is the point at which the Army and Navy, responsible solely to the Divine Emperor, threaten to withdraw their ministers, without which no Japanese Cabinet can exist. In the bitter dawn. War Minister General Senjuro Hayashi and Navy Minister Admiral Mineo Osumi hurled this final threat and Finance Minister Fujii crumpled, accepting their demands which means saddling Japan with...
...spring of 1853, just as the Big Ditch is freed of ice, Dan Harrow (Henry Fonda), a big, quiet farm boy, signs on as a mule driver for the summer. In Hennessy's strictly moral canal hotel at Rome (immoral canal hotels could be identified by their white chimneys), Dan meets Molly Larkins (June Walker). She is a pretty minx born to the Erie water. The conflict between "notional" Molly and simple Dan is the traditional one between water folk and land folk...
...sudden turn of good luck for Dan sends Molly into the kitchen of Dan's Sarsey Sal. A tranquil panorama by Currier & Ives, The Farmer Takes a Wife becomes emotionally articulate only when Molly is trying to infect her bumpkin beau with her passion for The Big Ditch...
...lebrès was passing his 75th birthday. For the running of the Langollen National Steeplechase on his Upperville, Va. estate, young Sportsman John Hay ("Jock") Whitney flew down from Manhattan in his new plane. Few feet above the landing field the motor stalled. The plane struck a ditch, nosed over, bumped owner and pilot into unconsciousness. With a black eye and six strips of plaster on his face, Sportsman Whitney went out next day to announce the races. In Washington Princess Julia Dent Grant Cantacuzene, granddaughter of President Ulysses Simpson Grant, regained the U. S. citizenship to which...