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...gratitude in service to you. that is the way above all others that I should choose. ... the Queen and I will always keep in our hearts the inspiration of this day. May we ever be worthy of the goodwill which I am proud to think surrounds us at the outset of my reign. I thank you from my heart, and may God bless...
...outset, the Sixth Massachusetts Infantry, chased through Baltimore by Southern-sympathizing rioters, was saved by heroic Mayor George William Brown, who brandished his umbrella at the mobsters, and 50 policemen who overawed the crowd with their drawn revolvers. Fifteen citizens and soldiers were killed that day. Next thing Baltimore knew, Federal guns were staring from Federal Hill, and the city was under the thumb of officious, punch-drunk General Benjamin ("Beast") Butler. A warm Southern sympathizer and States' rights man. Publisher Abell had his choice of keeping editorially mum or being deprived of his newspaper, thrown in jail...
When Heywood Broun, the New York World-Telegram's crusading columnist, called the first meeting to form a Newspaper Guild in December 1933, Morris Watson was one of the handful that showed up. From the outset he was a zealous Guild organizer and officer, outspoken not only against his employers but leading a campaign against the Brooklyn Eagle, an AP member. He headed deputations to Washington, signed demands by the Guild to his AP superiors. He was told his Guild activities were lessening his value at the AP and finally, Oct. 18, 1935 he was fired "because...
...unfortunate victim will be the Dartmouth Varsity. On May 22 competition with the Indians in rowing will be initiated on the Charles. This season will be the Indians' first on the water, and they prefer to start modestly, handicapped at the outset by a long winter...
...tous les chats sont gris. This means literally: "At night all cats are grey." A punning interpretation is: "At night all Shahs are drunk. In 1925 Sultan Ahmad Shah was toppled off the throne, and swashbuckling, self-made Reza Shah Pahlavi declared himself the King of Kings. From the outset he pompously made it clear that his country would stomach no further insults of the drunken Shah variety. Last year the King of Kings, who by this time had ordered Persia to be called Iran, heard that his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary...