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Washington diplomatic circles, particularly the British, turned an inquisitive eye on the man who was about to assume America's top assignment in foreign diplomacy-the successor to Thomas Pinckney, John Jay, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, James Russell Lowell, John Hay et al. Who was O. (for Oliver) Max Gardner...
Safe & Sound. He was the youngest of twelve children of a North Carolina doctor. He had worked his way through North Carolina State College, once visited England as a paid hand on a cattle boat and, with a scant $4 in his pocket, attended a memorial service for John Hay at St. Paul's. In 1929, after a successful law career and successive steps up the political ladder, he became his state's governor. In the four years he served he got things done, fixed the roads, paid the teachers, cut expenses, passed some social legislation, improved agriculture...
...spring wheat, harvested a 200-Ib. crop by hand in mid-July. She sieved, cleaned and polished the individual kernels. Then she spent eye-straining days with a bright light and magnifying glass hand-picking the best 15 pounds. These she shipped off in mid-November to the International Hay and Grain Show in Chicago...
...Robert Thompson, Nationalist Veteran." Despite a lack of technical slickness, the book's of feet is Shock, penetrating with the knowledge that a minimum of 5,000,000 ex-servicemen are unorganized, politically impressionable, socially semi-literate, and that we are due for hard times when demagogues may make hay. You are reminded that the fanatics serve as the fall guys of this country's fascism; that the root of the evil lies in the transmission belt from rabble-rouser to Big Money, "the link between the dirty shirts and the stuffed shirts...
...Arapahoe. Few ranchers were lucky enough to get more than a small percentage of their cattle out of the drifts, and many distant herds had not eaten for a week after the storm. As a desperate expedient, the Keystone Ranch near Karval had Army bombers try dropping baled hay to some of its cattle. After that seven Army C-47s began hay-bombing on a larger scale. As the cold weather continued, airlines passengers reported seeing dead cattle, horses and antelope dotting the frozen prairies...