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...sold it to his staff for $50,000, used the money to buy a farm on the Missouri River which he called Potato Hill. At Potato Hill he promptly resumed his marathon of printed discontent in E. W. Howe's Monthly. Ed Howe wrote his magazine in illegible longhand. One of its first advertisements, for a horse, mule and donkey liniment, appeared regularly for 22 years...
...Geneva Disarmament Conference is to make progress Mr. MacDonald must feel confident that this time he and Mr. Roosevelt know each other's minds without possibility of misunderstanding. Last week Ambassador Davis was said to have brought Scot MacDonald a personal letter written in longhand by the President. After chatting at Downing Street, he crossed the Channel to Paris, dropped in on Premier Edouard Daladier who also blames the President for the wreck of the London Conference, and sought to soothe the Frenchman with a cheery verbal message from Mr. Roosevelt. These chores done, Mr. Davis proceeded...
...doors in an austere chamber in Columbus Hospital, one witness at a time appeared before the court. Black-robed nuns swished through the hospital corridors, attending to the needs of judges, advocates and witnesses. Across the hall nuns vowed to secrecy bent over desks, laboriously making four copies in longhand of all testimony, to be sent to Rome. Every day Monsignor Cioppa distributed hard candies in little silk bags stitched by the nuns, explaining that this was an old Italian custom signifying Joy and Peace. Two miracles are necessary for beatification. In Chicago last week appeared Sister Delfina Grazioli...
...nodded over or dipped into at random, neither does he try to catch the reader napping. If he is read as carefully as he writes, he has few Joycean perplexities (aside from portmanteau words and puns); what looks like a puzzling shorthand will resolve itself into a longhand of his own invention, painstaking and descriptive. His latest, like his best-known book (The Enormous Room), is a diary; it is also a manifesto of the rights of man-as-artist, man-as-individual, especially man-as-e.e.cummings...
...morning at a piece of sugar set out for them by one Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born veteran of the Imperial German Army, wounded, gassed, Iron Crossed. Six other men as obscure as himself suggest that he join their German Labor Party, give him Membership Card No. 7, written in longhand. Meeting on Wednesday, the Executive Committee of the Party elect No. 7 their Chief of Propaganda, are amazed when he rounds up a meeting of 130, flabbergasted when he sweeps all before him with a loose but passionate 20-min. speech bursting with personal magnetism...