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Homer Ferguson is a quiet, mild-mannered Scotsman with unruly grey hair, nearsighted, friendly blue eyes, and a keen mind which he is never in any hurry to make up, or afterwards change. A graduate of the University of Michigan's Law School, he taught school, studied medicine and dentistry before he decided he wanted to practice law. From that point his career ran in a straight line...
...while working 15 hours a day, Dr. Tilney was struck by cerebral thrombosis (blood clot in the brain).* For six weeks he lost the power of speech. But his mind was as keen as ever, and he gave his colleagues detailed notes on the course of his disease. The devoted doctors at the Institute took turns sleeping in his house every night, came over in a band of five to carry his heavy, inert body from his study to his bedroom. Within a few months Dr. Tilney taught himself to scribble with his left hand, in six months wrote...
...rationalizing of his change of mind stop there: Vag had a keen sense of justice and he didn't like to be prejudiced in his judgement. In all the times that he had attended Frost's lectures through the fall, he had never been bored by dogmatism. "Take it or leave it" was the poet's principle. Frost always seemed cavalier about the whole thing. That was it, cavalier. Mr. Frost had used the word himself--students should all take a cavalier attitude toward their work, letting what stuck, stick, and forgetting the rest. It was a perfect formulation...
...philatelic relics of Pony Express days, and an Indian peace pipe, at St. Joseph, Mo.; a book, Federal Government in Kansas City; jars and jars of Texas honey; four boxes of homemade fudge wrapped in red, white & blue by the Pelahatchee, Miss, postmistress. Six Governors (Kentucky's Keen Johnson, Georgia's Eurith D. Rivers, Mississippi's Paul Johnson, Tennessee's Prentice Cooper, Missouri's Lloyd Stark, Indiana's Clifford Townsend), one Governor-elect (Louisiana's Sam Jones) and four Texas ex-Governors (Pat Neff, Dan Moody, William Hobby and Jim Ferguson) greeted...
...mobile, spontaneous units; why not build China's economy in similar units-develop a guerrilla industry? John Alexander broached the idea to his boss. Sir Archibald was enthusiastic, at once took the plan to Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung. They, too, were keen. Dr. Kung allotted $2,000,000 (Chinese), promised $3,000,000 more. On Aug. 5, 1938, the leaders met and constituted themselves as a central committee of the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives. Fittingly this economic defense against Japanese penetration was born in the commandeered building of the Yokohama Specie Bank...