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...affairs and sent the undergraduates into an uproar. There have been few more boisterous hours in Harvard's history than those between noon and 3 o'clock of November 14, 1902, when Carrie Nation made a whirlwind campaign to woo the student body from rum and nicotine. The Kansas hatchet swinger, who personally broke enough whiskey bottles (full) to arouse envy in the heart of the most rabid prohibition agent, stepped off the electric car that carried her from Boston to Cambridge and went straight to those claustral walls, where a thousand students were eating their midday meal...
Most of the prisoners at McClellan are Bavarians, blond, stocky and young. Except for four doctors, a dentist and a tall, hatchet-faced pharmacist, there are no officers among them. Dressed in faded blue denim P.W. uniforms or, occasionally, the patched-up uniforms which they had on when they were captured, they looked arrogant, meaty, well...
...there had been a complete and picturesque alteration. Stocky President Higinio Morinigo had long teetered on the fence between Argentina and the U.S. Short time ago the Frente de Guerra (War Front), a pro-Argentine group of Army officers, decided that he had perched there long enough. Led by hatchet-faced Colonel Benitez Vera, the 3,000-man garrison of Campo Grande set out for the center of Asunción, a few miles away, riding in Lend-Lease jeeps and trucks, guarded by Lend-Lease airplanes. President Morinigo met them, yielded to their demands...
Briggs, the grand jury believed, had faked a letter from Harry Hopkins to Dr. Umphrey Lee, president of Southern Methodist University (who had never received it)-a letter that suggested that Hopkins wanted Willkie to get the Republican Presidential nomination. The literary hatchet-man who put it in a book thought it proved that Willkie was a New Deal stooge...
Tiny, trim, hatchet-faced C. Nelson Sparks had published the letter because he thought it proved that "Mr. Willkie is close to the New Deal. . . . Willkie is just a stooge. . . ." Also, the letter added sales value to his book, One Man -Wendell Willkie, in which it appeared...