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...rushing to the State Department, Old Tom's toes twinged again. This time Tom wanted the Senate to get going on a vote on the tidelands oil bill, which means a lot to Texas. The vote was being held up by a discussion of Hawaii's plea for statehood. Hawaii, snorted Minor Statesman Connally from the Senate floor, is just "a province out in the Pacific Ocean ... I think I am a better American than a great many people who live in Hawaii. I've been to Hawaii. The majority of the people there...
...group had been refused by Henry J. Cadbury, Hollis Professor of Divinity, but Cadbury said last night he could not remember the incident. The Progressives have also contacted "several other instructors and professors," whose names Bousoukis would not reveal, but all have turned down the group's plea...
Hungry & Unloved Into the Chicago offices of Armour & Co. one day in 1887 walked a hobo with a letter for the president. Its plea: give me $25. Meatpacker Philip D. Armour got a kick out of the writer's literary style, ordered the $25 paid to him, and said, "It's worth it." The writing hobo was a 28-year-old Norwegian immigrant with goldrimmed spectacles and an aristocratic face. In Norway he had been a cobbler's apprentice, woodsman, stevedore and road navvy. He had come steerage to the U.S., worked for tight-fisted Wisconsin farmers...
Gwinn ended on this plea for minority action. While his historical throwback may amuse some, his plan is no joke. More than twenty states have petitioned Congress for just such a Convention, and only thirty-two such petitions are necessary...
...particular points toward Administration stupidity as the source of Russian power; for instance, he terms the Korean War useless because it could have been prevented by leaving American troops in Korea after the war. Yet four years ago, the Senator turned a deaf ear to Secretary Acheson's plea for military and economic aid to Korea...