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Honorary Bricklayers. In the refrain of "Squire" Harge, superintendent of the mission, he must "husk the corn and shell it and finish the fall plowing and get up some fence posts and flail out the wheat and boss the Indian women while they dig the rest of the turnips and potatoes and move that big stone under my kitchen stove and put a new floor in my sitting-room and there's some repairs on the cart and we need a new privy and a couple of ox-yokes and I have a clock that...
Histrionic Patrick Jay Hurley got what he wanted: a chance to flail away at the State Department in the full spotlight of a Congressional hearing. A crowd jam-packed the big chamber. Ex-Ambassador Hurley had promised to pull no punches, to name names and dates and places, to expand his charges that career diplomats had done "an inside job" of sabotaging U.S. foreign policy, particularly in China (TIME...
...George Washington's farewell address, delivered by Representative Marion T. Bennett of Missouri. Then Michigan's labor-baiting Clare Hoffman got the floor and the House forgot all about George Washington and Bill Gallagher, too. Clare Hoffman was barely set on his feet when he began to flail away at the C.I.O., the P.A.C. and the Communists. Michigan's Frank E. Hook, supported by C.I.O.-P.A.C. in the last election, broke in to defend his friends. Said he without heat: "The C.I.O. and the P.A.C. are doing more to keep down the Communists than any other group...
Then the R.A.F. promptly took up the flail. A force hit Cologne at about 8 p.m. A few minutes later another force, much bigger, hit Düsseldorf for 27 minutes, during which more than 2,000 tons were dropped...
...Mack, 80-year-old manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, compared with him then (as he does now) in disregard of age. Both hate liquor and tobacco. Both have infinite faith in their players. Both recognize that baseball and football are only games-something few coaches admit-and refuse to flail their breasts or their players when they hit a losing streak...