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...President Frick's purpose in chastising Pitcher Dean was to deflate his ego, he failed sadly. Instead there followed an absurd uproar which filled U. S. sports pages for three days while Pitcher Dean reiterated: "I'm not goin' to sign nothin'!" Baseball's noisiest dispute since Babe Ruth was fined $5,000 for insubordination in 1925, the Dean-Frick fight ended after three days in a ludicrously solemn compromise. Witnessed by two dozen newshawks, President Frick asked Pitcher Dean whether he had made the remarks attributed to him by the Belleville Advocate...
...Back in 1896 Colonel Green walked into a Republican State Committee meeting at Terrell and announced he wanted to be a delegate to the national convention. Hetty Green had told him to get some publicity. The convention told him nothin' stirrin' . . . but the people of the town put on the pressure. ... I told Colonel Green it would 'take 75' to cover expenses for the delegate he replaced. He handed me a check for $7,500. I had to explain I only needed...
...Northampton, Mass, to Calvin Coohdge in the mayoralty race of 1910, thus helped win Cooliydge his first important political office; in Northampton, Mass. "guide philosopher & friend" to the 30th President, he received the first letter Coolidge wrote from the White House. His classic advice: "Don't say nothin...
...about 10:45 and get Coonhunter out of bed and I tell him, 'Now, look a-here, you find my keys by 11 o'clock or I'll kill you. I don't care nothin' much about the six cents.' And he started shakin' and I went away. But come 11 o'clock and back I went and there was Coonhunter pawin' and a-scratchin' in the potater patch where he said he'd throwed the keys and I looked at him and I said. 'Coonhunter, guess...
...might be a Uncle Tom nigguh, but you young nigguhs ain't doin' no good for yo'se'ves or anybody else. I'se respected but you all ain't nothin...