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...opposition consisted primarily of those who felt that federation's skimpy safeguards of Negro status are still too much. Proponents of federation argue that the resulting dominion will be large enough to grow and prosper, to the benefit of all of its citizens. Their slogan: "Federate and flourish...
...when he took her on a 20-mile hike; they had barely covered half the distance when he popped the question. When she said yes, "he stood on his head for me for one minute and four seconds." So began (in 1913) a robust alliance that was to flourish until 1930, when they separated. Dumbbells and Carrot Strips is her story of those years, and if it is richer in beet juice than any other biography of Bernarr Macfadden, this is because no one has more to reveal about a man than his former wife. Moreover Mary has been assisted...
...opium, heroin, morphine, cocaine and marijuana, most of it destined for the U.S. Some of the dope was foreign-made, apparently lifted from medical stocks sent by other countries as friendly help in 1949 when an earthquake hit Ecuador. But much of it came from the poppy fields which flourish under the snow-capped Andean volcanoes close to Quito. Impressed by White's raids, Minister of Government Camillo Ponce Enriquez last week promised to ask the next Congress for laws prohibiting poppy-growing. George White headed back toward his desk in Boston where, between traveling assignments...
...buyer is still the center of the retail trade, and will probably always remain so. He is the hub of a wheel around which flourish dozens of advisory bureaus connecting every phase of the business. They exist solely to support the buyer. He must go out and bring in the goods that will sell. It is on his success above all that every branch of the retailing industry must stand...
...knew all the rules. Then at 30, he was the third youngest Senator in U.S. history.* He affected pearl grey spats, plastered-down hair and cake-eater sideburns. He was cherubic in countenance, shy and courteous in manner, and he lacked his father's oratorical fire and flourish. He was, his senatorial elders decided, a mere shadow of Fighting...