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Died. Mrs. William B. Weeden, 88, first deaf child in the U. S. to be taught to speak and read lips; in Providence, R. I. Daughter of Governor Henry Lippitt, she was stricken at four after an attack of scarlet fever, had Dr. Alexander Graham Bell and Educator Horace Mann to teach...
Within the hall nearly 300 formally-clad Nassau bigwigs perspired in the heavy tropical heat while scarlet-robed, bewigged Chief Justice Oscar Bedford Daly advanced to administer the oath of office. In the khaki of a British major general, the nervous, unsmiling Duke shifted uncomfortably under a red, crown-emblazoned canopy, repeated the oath of allegiance: "I, Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Duke of Windsor, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King George, his heirs and successors according to law, so help me God." On a special dais, a step...
...YOUR BRIEF REFERENCE TO ME AS "SCARLET-FACED SWAMPLANDS SLICKER" AT CHICAGO. I WISH IN THE INTEREST OF ACCURACY TO SAY: MY BIRTH AND HABITAT ARE ON THE PINEYWOODS DRY SAND-LANDS OF THE SOUTH. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE EVER HEARD A MAN AS HOMELY AS I AM CALLED A SLICKER. YOUR LAST REFERENCE TO ME WAS AS A "BACKWOODS NOEL COWARD." THE BACKWOODS IS ACCURATE...
...rushed in & out of the bedroom without knocking: South Carolina's Senator Jimmy Byrnes, foxy, mellow, casual; Florida's Senator Claude Pepper, the eloquent, scarlet-faced swamplands slicker-both 100%ers. Big & little Democrats came in hordes, some humble like San Antonio's globular Maury Maverick (who came out saying "I didn't sit down-a small-time politician like me wouldn't dare"), some sardonic, like massive Federal Lender Jesse H. Jones, who lounged about, cracking hard Texas jokes, made no attempt to consult with the new Field Marshal of the Democratic Party...
...foreign press assembled in the gaudy scarlet-gilt-ivory conference room of the Propaganda Ministry and to the radio world at large, Rosenberg proclaimed a Nazi-dominated "Community of Fate" embracing Sweden, Norway and Denmark. "Fate," he declared, "so willed it that the German Reich has taken under its protection the entire territory from which once the German peoples migrated." Urging the Scandinavian countries, two of which are already Nazi-occupied, to appreciate the honor of German domination, he continued: "A small nation does not violate its honor when it places itself under the protection of a larger nation...