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What Were The Facts? Being a widower, M. Salengro lived alone at Lille, Mayor of that big city (pop. 200,000) and popular for his energetic efforts among the poor. His housekeeper had cooked his dinner, left it in the warm oven, and had gone home as usual. His chauffeur went home after leaving the Minister of Interior at his door, and in Paris his secretary at the Ministry had already taken a long-distance call in which M. Salengro said that he felt tired and begged to be excused from a scheduled appointment next day with his friend...
...dinner remained in the oven uneaten. Subsequent examination showed that Death came about 11 p. m. but no one arrived until early morning. Then the housekeeper shuffled in to get the Mayor's breakfast and at first only thought he had dozed off in his easy chair near the warm stove and slept the night...
...Paris, awakening during scheduled war-defense exercises, Joseph Rasse heard screaming sirens, saw all lights on, concluded war had begun, stuck his head in a gas oven, attempted suicide...
Among these working on the committee with Floyd are Edward H. Bennett '37, Charles C. Buell '22, Edward L. Casey '17. Samuel M. Felton 3d '13. George S. Ferd, Jr. '27, George P. Gardner, Jr. '10, Huntington R. Hardwick '16, Delmar Leighton '18, George Oven, Jr. '23, Frederick R. Mosely Jr. '20, Leverett Soltonatall'14, and William H. Schmidt...
...when such an "incident" occurs (for to the historically minded among us all revolutions and social and economic upheavals are mere "incidents") a great deal depends upon the number of people who have been trained to keep their mental powder dry, oven when all around them it rains oratorical cats and dogs. For when the clouds of debate and strife shall have been dispersed by the inevitable flow of fresh commonsense, it is these boys of the Great Aloofness who will have to pick up the pieces and start the work of reconstruction. I don't want...