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Peons may sleep a midday siesta, but not a midmorning. Believe it or not, we Mexicans have to work for a living just as you Americans do. Unfortunately we have no "relief...
Last week Springfield's Midday Luncheon Club and Governor Henry Homer of Illinois decided to do an extraordinary honor to the memory of Springfield's greatest citizen, Abraham Lincoln. To Governor Horner's mansion for dinner went a distinguished gathering including Secretary Ickes and Governor Talmadge. They met, shook hands, turned away. Af- terward the members and guests of the Midday Luncheon Club assembled in a high-school auditorium for a special treat. On the platform, a handsome lectern bore a large portrait of Lincoln. Out to the speakers' seats marched Governor Horner, Secretary Ickes, Governor...
Next day he again voluntarily returned to the Senate hearing at which Partners Thomas Lamont and Russell Leffingwell gave tedious testimony about financing after the U. S. entered the War. Finally Mr. Morgan expressed his disappointment. "I guess we are in for another dull day." Before catching a midday train back to ' Manhattan he shook hands with Senator Nye and his fellow investigators...
...know I shall fear neither death nor living so much when I know that this great beauty of mountain and sky and sea lies wrapped in eternal silence through unbroken spans of years-that across its dreaming face will be drawn veils of color, rose at dawn, gold at midday, blue at twilight, day and night, year after year, century following century...
...businesses were closed. Health officers advised every one to stay at home. Three children and several adults were reported dead of pneumonia after breathing dust. During the height of the storm, railway traffic was at a standstill. When high winds swept the dust Eastward Kansas City had night at midday and people walked the streets with handkerchiefs tied across their faces. How great was the crop damage remained largely a matter of guesswork. Oklahoma grimly reported that 50% of the wheat in the Western part of the State was ruined. An Oklahoman was said to have fainted when a drop...