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...little ship Potomac, in the harbor of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after a day of sunshine out in the Gulf Stream. ... In Washington, as you know, the working day of the Presidency in these times averages about 15 hours. . . . But at sea the radio messages and the occasional pouch of mail reduce official work to not more than two or three hours a day." " there is a chance for a bit of sunshine or a wetted line, or a biography or a detective story or even a nap after lunch. Above all, there is the opportunity for thinking things through. . . . That...
...WHOM have been diverted by the antic notions of Professor Rhinelander Briggs, B.S., billed as the greatest living authority on miscellaneous subjects. He has attacked Communists for introducing the little red hen into the nation's kindergartens, has aired what he claimed were sound effects recorded in the pouch of a kangaroo...
...tough a crowd as there is, and I think they have the military stuff, with the help we can give them, to win. It won't be a stalemated war." Then he sped to the Hotel Roosevelt for a parley with Ambassador John G. Winant. That evening, pouch-eyed, gaunt, battered, he climbed out of a parlor car at Washington and went directly to the White House...
Their report, documented with an Italian mail pouch they had seized, gave such complete information that Sir Archibald decided to keep up a series of longdistance scouting sorties. All fall and winter three columns ranged across Libya, as far as Free French-held Chad, harrying isolated Italian garrisons, keeping tabs on Italian movements...
...town. Said he: "I came here to find out what we are going to use for money." If necessary, he vowed, he would visit every member of Congress to discover why he was getting greenbacks instead of gold coin for the metal he mined. Opening a leather pouch, he pulled out a pair of women's garters with gold buckles set with $5 gold pieces...