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This state of affairs, however, failed to alarm those who knew Franklin Roosevelt from the old Albany days. He could, they were quite aware, "play possum" with rare skill, deliberately keeping in the background until "things shook down a bit" and then with one or two bold gestures reassert his leadership. Last week these old Albany friends hoped that the President was only playing such a game, that nothing more serious was the matter with his Administration...
...from Missouri and Andrew Jackson's lieutenant. My family table talk was entirely devoted to law and politics. Southwest Missouri was, and is yet in those parts in which the automobile road has not penetrated, a backwoods country with a characteristic backwoods culture. Turkey shoots, country school hoedowns, hunting (possum, squirrel, quail and other small game) and hay wagon parties were sports with which I was familiar...
There was a young man out of Higginsville, Mo. some 30 years ago who was willing to try anything once or maybe twice. He had a thin-lipped, reckless mouth, downslanting 'possum eyes, the name of Bert Hall and the makings of a hero. After a few years on Mississippi steamboats, he became a dare-devil automobile racer, drifted to France. There with Aviation Pioneers Henri and Maurice Farman and Louis Blériot he learned to fly. In the Balkan War of 1913 he received $100 a day as pilot first for the Turks, then the Bulgarians...
...still it's got a bite in it, too. The days is gittin' late. Purty soon it'll be time to git out the old houn'-dog an' start out after coons, some o' these frosty nights, or maybe git a possum up a persimmon tree...
...humanitarian project being carried out in America." In 1901 Martha McChesney Berry, daughter of a socialite Georgia planter, casually began holding Sunday School for mountain children, in a log cabin on her father's estate near Rome. Soon her Sunday School overflowed; she founded another in nearby 'Possum Trot. Next year Miss Berry opened day schools, then a boarding school for boys, at $100 a year of which at least half was to be paid in work. She went north to raise money, got her first $50 in Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman's church in Brooklyn. Andrew...