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...rumble, and Copilot Charles Woodruff idly noticed a shock wave radiating on the ground. "Just like a concussion wave from a bomb," Woodruff told himself. Then, with a shock, he realized what had happened. Captain Koehler closed the bomb-bay doors and reported to his flight leader: "This is Garfield 13. I am aborting the mission." He explained why, radioed his story for relay to his home base...
...five years as Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia, Garfield Todd became a symbol and something of a saint to the 2,220,000 Africans who comprise 92% of the population. More than any other white leader in the Central African Federation (the united British territories of Southern and Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland), Todd fought to advance the rights of black men. He tried to give the vote to more Africans, to increase Africans' wages. But in his zeal for racial "partnership," Garfield Todd, longtime Churches of Christ (Disciples) missionary, gradually antagonized more and more of Southern Rhodesia...
...Methodist minister cannot serve God and a big corporation at the same time, especially if he is on the corporation's payroll, said Washington's Methodist Bishop G. (for Garfield) Bromley Oxnam at a Washington conference of ministers and laymen. Attacking the current trend toward "industrial chaplains," Bishop Oxnam insisted that "the minister as a paid employee is a contradiction in terms...
Doubt & Drift. The question arose in 1881 when James Garfield was shot in the back by a deranged lawyer in the Washington railroad terminal and lay disabled for 80 days. During that time he performed only one official act, signing an extradition paper. The Cabinet tried to cope with such problems as post-office fraud scandals and sagging foreign relations, considered urging Vice President Chester Alan Arthur to take over the functions and authority of the President during his disability, but feared the legal implications. The Government drifted until Garfield died...
With the indignation of the historian, Bruce decided this was a "silly plaque" to mark the spot where Garfield, dying of wounds from bullets fired at him by an assassin in Washington's old Sixth Street railroad station, had been sent by his physicians in a last vain hope that the sea air might save his ebbing life. Last week, having started with a contribution from his own weekly 50? allowance, Bruce was in the midst of a campaign to raise funds for a memorial worthy of a President. In time he wants to collect "several hundred dollars...