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When the epidemic was over, grateful survivors addressed to President Andrew Johnson a fervent petition for Dr. Mudd's release. It never reached the White House. A new commanding officer sent the physician back to his dungeon, chains and labor. There he stayed until the spring of 1869 when President Johnson finally released him. Health broken and still suspect among his neighbors, Dr. Mudd tried for 14 years without success to win back his old life. In 1883, aged 50, he went out on a stormy night to attend a patient, caught pneumonia, quickly died...
...account for the paucity of certain volumes, but even so, such a plan would defeat its purpose, for reasons which, it is to be hoped, are all too obvious. At any rate, rather than elaborate upon the point at hand, these columns can do no more than offer a fervent prayer that Librarians will make sure there are sufficient copies of books in constant demand before precious money is spent on such relatively unimportant material as fills the shelves in the room containing the Delivery Desk. Wherever may lie the blame for the discrepancy in available volumes, the situation...
...London, Japan's Matsudaira rushed around to French Ambassador Charles Corbin and sought to curry favor by promising that Tokyo would support a French demand for naval parity should Paris ever make it. Meanwhile the U. S. and Britain publicly embraced each other in a series of fervent hands-across-the-sea declarations by Secretary Cordell Hull, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, U. S. Ambassador Robert W. Bingham and Lord President of the Council Stanley Baldwin who ringingly declared at Glasgow: "As far as this country is concerned, so long as I have a responsible position in His Majesty...
...Murder Farm." In Geneva a session of the Assembly of the League of Nations especially convened to end the everlasting war between Bolivia and Paraguay over the Gran Chaco achieved nothing more last week than an international radio hookup over which League statesmen mouthed fervent peace appeals...
...time. Inspired by the inherent goodness of all men and convinced of their possession of certain inalienable natural rights, a theory long since discarded by political thinkers, he postulated a theory of social contract, historically null and logically full of gaping flaws, but yet inspiring in its fervent trust and faith in the basic goodness of all mankind. A visionary and idealist he was without a forerunner or a model. Above all he was a describer of beauty--a describer of the passions of the human heart and of the beauties of nature...