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...press which, having tasted royal scandal, lusted for more. Kent had got into the news, while nis Duchess was abed with her second child, by going with his orchidaceous friend Mrs. Allen to have his bumps read by a phrenologist and posing with Mrs. Allen on the doorstep (TIME...
...Diego. Calif, doorstep a vigilant bodyguard spied a beer bottle filled with black powder, instantly snatched out the bomb's fuse in time to save the house of General Plutarco Elias Calles, exiled onetime Mexican President, who was playing cards inside...
President: We are stricken by no plague of locusts. . . . Nature still offers her bounty, and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply...
First to bring Drought to his doorstep was Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins who sought permission to increase the number of farmers on drought relief from 90,000 to 150,000. Next to bring Drought to his doorstep were Louis J. Taber and Fred Freestone of the National Grange, who arrived to suggest a system of crop insurance which they had already presented to Alf Landon, who promised it favorable consideration. Franklin Roosevelt promised no less. As for more immediate Drought problems, the President laid out in detail his trip to confer with officials of 16 Drought States, beginning this week...
Shrewdly building up suspense for his acceptance speech this week, Governor Landon lost not a day in the public eye by his silence. All week long a host of volunteer talkers trod each other's heels at his doorstep. And out of their political No Man's Land marched three long-disgruntled Democrats to enlist formally under the banner of their onetime enemies...