Word: fate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Editor Dawson's "Letters to the Editor" department is the most famous in the world. Here the ingredients of British character are revealed, stewing with incredible seriousness over topics ranging from the fate of Empire to the palatability of black-grape jelly with pickled pork. The department runs four or five columns daily and includes the publishable thoughts of many of Britain's most substantial citizens...
...particular enemies. He had two virtues prized above all others by professional politicians: his word was good and his loyalty unswerving. In 1928 he was made the Democratic nominee for Vice President to play a Southern conservative obligato to Al Smith's metropolitan liberalism, but four years later, fate having denied him the Vice Presidency, he became the loyal follower of Franklin Roosevelt. And Robinson who was more conservative than Smith became the defender of Roosevelt who was too liberal for Smith. In fact his loyalty to the President-often tried by swift Rooseveltian shifts of front that left...
Great things were at stake: the fate of the President's Court Bill, and equally important, the choice of a majority leader to succeed Senator Robinson. Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky, choice of the President for the post, and Senator Pat Harrison, backed by most of the veteran Senators and Court Bill opponents, were the rival candidates. Both kept pretty much to their staterooms. But their friends and supporters lobbied all over the train keeping a jealous eye on one another. The Republicans aboard, led by Senators Vandenberg and Bridges, looked on happily. The rest, even Senator La Follette...
...withdrew from the cow pasture, Charlotte Gibson, 23, was going to have a baby. The upright Gibsons decided to shoulder her shame. They had Ridingmaster Sidney Homewood, 24, prosecuted for seducing Charlotte. He "had to be punished so that young girls in the future may be spared a similar fate. One cannot think of one's own humiliation, but of society in general, and the necessity for preserving the beauty and sanctity of love...
...back safely, Langdon found Rogers a prisoner in irons; his enemies had had him arrested on charges of treason and malfeasance. But Langdon's sympathy for his chief vanished when he discovered why Ann was no longer there. He left Rogers to the descending discords of his fate, went in search of Ann. Their marriage, his career in London and his return to America during the Revolution, bring the long tale to its close...