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...Still another guest was High Commissioner Frank Murphy coming to say "Hail" in token of his return from the Philippines, "Farewell" before departing for Philadelphia, in the interval to taste some White House food and while away a couple of hours planning a U. S.-Philippine conference to try to save the Philippines from the economic pains of independence...
Campaign songs excoriating the opposing party are as old as U. S. politics. Of all U. S. Presidents, George Washington alone escaped. After his unanimous election he was hailed by a happy populace singing Yankee Doodle and Welcome, Mighty Chief. Back-biting and banner-waving came in with Adams and Jefferson. The New Englander was a "Monarchist," the Virginian a "maniac who sympathized with the French Revolution." In 1797 Adams voters paraded to Hail Columbia! and Adams and Liberty! Four years later the Jeffersonians were crying...
...manager, "Arizona John" Burke, sometimes had differences. Cody once wired him: IF YOU WANT TO REMAIN WITH THIS SHOW YOU MUST OBEY MY ORDERS. To which Burke replied collect: WHO THE HELL EVER TOLD YOU I WANTED TO REMAIN WITH YOUR SHOW BRING OUT THE BAND LET IT PLAY HAIL TO THE CHIEF ITS A MATTER OF RECORD THAT COLUMBUS WAS PUT IN CHAINS AFTER DISCOVERING AMERICA AND THAT THE JEWS CRUCIFIED AN AWFULLY GOOD...
Cora Walles bobbed up at a blazing window, crumpled in a hail of machine-gun bullets. Moment later the roof collapsed and William Walles ran squealing to the porch. A burst of bullets toppled him back into the fire...
Having backed Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence's Arab revolt in the desert, Allenby ran off his climactic campaign in the autumn of 1918. On the actual field of Armageddon, dread coastal plain where St. John the Divine predicted "thunders and lightnings . . . a great earthquake . . . a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent," Allenby fought his greatest battle, won his title, feinting at the Turks' centre with cavalry, rolling up their right with infantry. With the fall of Aleppo and Damascus, the Central Powers were cut off from their allies in the Near...