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...been exactly the kind of campaign that suited Colombians: lots to argue about, but no issue that really mattered. Both Conservatives and Liberals favored close collaboration with the U.S. On domestic policy, the Conservatives had caught up with a Liberal Party that after 16 years in office, fat, flush and divided, had endorsed not only Colombia's advanced labor code but the principle of the annual wage as well. What had caused most of the campaign excitement, and all the Conservatives' glee, was the Liberal split...
Virginia was a reluctant seceder. The state did not leave the Union until Fort Sumter was fired on and President Lincoln called for volunteers. In the first flush of secession and war optimism, in the almost carefree mood of Richmond, any Confederate could take care of ten Yankees. The deceptive mood was heightened by the victory at Bull Run. General McClellan's guns, as he inched up the Peninsula less than a year later, sounded the first grim note...
...with all its troubles Shanghai still has the optimism of the gambler who knows he is going to fill his flush and take the pot. One U.S. businessman bent my ear for half an hour with his troubles: lack of cooperation from the State Department, the Chinese "squeeze," Chinese undependability, etc. Then I asked him if the city had any future at all. He leaned over, gripped my shoulder and half whispered: "My boy, Shanghai is due for the biggest boom in history...
MacArthur had the qualifications. As a young man, he had seen Japan in the flush of its victory (1905) over decadent Tsarist Russia. He had studied the Jap military machine and its methods. He had seen something of the Orient when he was an aide to his roving father, Lieut. General Arthur MacArthur...
When Eaton returned to North Africa, he was flush with a $20,000 revolution-promotion fund. His first task was to find the rightful Pasha, who had fled in terror far up the Nile. After a two-month search he found his man. Somewhat reluctantly, Hamet signed a treaty of alliance with the U.S., made Eaton a general in his army, and agreed to march on Tripoli...