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James W. Morrison, Jr., Portland, Oregon--Jefferson High School, Portland...
...friend Henry Stephens Randall, onetime (1851-53) New York Secretary of State, ostensibly to thank him for a four volume set of the Colonial History of New York. But the substance of the letter was Lord Macaulay's Whiggish reflections on Randall's biography of Thomas Jefferson and on the political future of the U. S. This letter stirred in Republican James Abram Garfield so much resentment that 21 years later he flayed it from the stump during a Congressional campaign.* Last week Franklin Roosevelt, like Garfield before him, chose Macaulay's letter as a good butt...
...evening last week, the S. S. President Jefferson tied up in Manila harbor and 376 refugees, evacuated from Shanghai three days before, disembarked on the dock to the gay music of a Marine band. An hour later Manila's brightly lighted water front was suddenly plunged into pitch darkness. The dock on which the refugees were standing in confused groups began to shake. With a terrifying roar the roof above split apart. "They're bombing us again!" screamed a woman refugee. Another shrieked: "Is this another...
...that of the 32nd (see p. 18) was of course unthinkable, but no more unthinkable than that the former would give up without a fight. From Shanghai, where she had been keeping herself ably in the limelight, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. last week arrived in Manila on the President Jefferson just in time to maintain her clan's record for attendance at oriental earthquakes. Said she, in an able radio broadcast: "I want to extend heartfelt thanks for the way in which we were received at Manila. All the church bells rang out for us. I suppose I must...
...mines, the camp where President Coolidge said "I do not choose to run," the bowl-like mountain valley out of which Major Albert William Stevens sailed his stratosphere balloon in 1935, the outstanding granite mountain whose top Sculptor Gutzon Borglum is blasting into the shape of Washington's, Jefferson's, Lincoln's and Roosevelt's heads, the Wind Cave National Monument whose ten underground square miles have never been well explored, and the Fossil Cycad National Monument whose 360 acres preserve trees petrified 120,000,000 years...