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Vicksburg Contractor Michael T. Morrissey had testified that he happened to be passing Bilbo's "Dream House No. I" -a 27-room brick mansion near Poplarville, Miss.-one day. He found the Senator trying to build a lake with a mule, a one-armed Negro and two boys. Understandably touched, Morrissey fetched his earth-moving machinery, dug the lake, and by a "bookkeeper's error" charged the $3,672.91 cost to the Keesler Army Air Field, which he was then helping construct. He explained airily his loans of $6,000 and his gift of a Cadillac to Bilbo...
...February, the Mikkolamen will get a crack at the Tiger and the Army mule in a triangular affair at West Point where the team will also elect a captain for the year...
...Paul Evans, executive editor of the Mitchell Daily Republic in South Dakota where he covers a lot of territory; and Ernest Linford who was raised on a Wyoming ranch and is editor of the Laramie Republican Boomerang. Bill Nye founded this paper and named it for his pet mule. Linford left the mule home but brought...
Better a Blind Mule. The day school opened, Old Sawney squatted on his heels beneath a beech tree, while new boys paraded past-as many as 75 in 90 minutes. The principal shot a question or two at each one, then tipped off his teachers as to which ones were likely mischiefmakers, and which ones would be poor students. He was usually right...
Study halls were open air whenever the weather permitted. Said Sawney: "I would rather make my living plowing on a steep, rocky hillside with a blind mule than imprison innocent children." Part of a thicket was ruled off for the principal's "office," where malefactors met with a beech switch. When a parent criticized this "barbaric" teaching method, he replied: "I'll continue to use it as long as they keep sending me young barbarians to educate...