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...fund member, "we wanted him to continue what we all looked on as a kind of California crusade for good government. Dick didn't have a dime of his own. So this fund was set up to cover his extraordinary expenses outside his office. Dick never got a nickel of it for personal use. And we were most careful to screen the contributors. We didn't want anybody contributing who might use the fact as a lever on Dick's voting...
...left in Canada. Newfoundland's unharnessed streams can eventually yield an estimated 8,000,000 h.p. of electric energy, nearly one-third the total developed in the U.S. The rocky land is rich in iron; it has proved deposits of lead, zinc and copper, and encouraging indications of nickel and oil. Even Newfoundland's location is valuable. The most easterly point of North America, only 1,600 miles from Ireland, it is a vital outpost of air travel and Western Hemisphere defense...
THANKS FOR A VERY ACCURATE AND INTERESTING STORY ["Cairo's Double Threat"-TIME, Aug. 11] BUT YOU HAVE BEEN MISINFORMED ABOUT THE $2,700 WHICH YOU ALLEGED THAT WE BORROWED FROM THE PALACE. CIRCLE WHICH WE LATER ATTACKED . . . WE HAVE NEVER BORROWED A NICKEL FROM THE PALACE CIRCLE BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT BORROWING IS A DISGUISED WAY OF CORRUPTION . . . WE STARTED OUR NEWSPAPERS WITH HONEST MONEY EARNED AND NOT FROM BORROWED MONEY FROM ANYBODY...
...Danville, Va. cops gave visiting motorists the benefit of a unique form of hospitality: instead of writing traffic tickets for overtime parking, the bluecoats simply dropped a nickel (from a fund supplied by the chamber of commerce) into the nearest parking meter, and passed...
...Negro sharecropper in Gallion, La., light-skinned Theodore Roe got no schooling and was pushed into the world without a nickel. But Ted was luckier than a gallon of Fast Dice Oil. Fate led him to Little Rock, Ark., where he did odd jobs for a tailor and learned to sew. With this education, he pushed on to Chicago and went to work for a Negro tailor named Edward P. Jones. And that put Lucky Ted on the express escalator to Easy Street...