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Quite a few Democrats, it turned out, were just as unhappy about Paul Butler. Before the next morning's explosive headlines had grown cool, the Capitol dome began to sound like a hive of angry bees. "Mr. Butler should resign," cried South Carolina's William Jennings Bryan Dorn. "He evidently thinks all of the thinking and planning of the Democratic Party should be done by himself and his liberal gang." Mister Sam was a man of few words: "We'll just let Mr. Butler stew...
...home was given to the Cambridge Historical Society by its owners about two years ago. It is believed to be one of the oldest houses in Cambridge, and contains interesting specimens of wallpaper and a bee hive chimney...
...Hive Bound. In Columbia, S.C.. Representative Lloyd Bell introduced a bill in the state legislature that would protect citizens from "Yankee bees," said they escape occasionally from out-of-state trucks and attack his constituents in swarms...
...Steche's next step was to make an artificial bee of wood, mount it on the end of a 5-in. spiral of wire attached to an oscillator. He sticks the model, faintly perfumed with lavender, through a hole in a glass-walled hive and lets the oscillator wiggle it. The bees crowd around and observe. As soon as they get the message, they swarm out and unerringly fly to the lavender-flavored sugar water that has been placed to reward them...
...Steche has succeeded in directing his bees to sugar water at various angles from the hive and as far as 1,000 yds. away. In an average half-hour experiment, as many as 150 bees understand his wiggled words and take advantage of them...