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...saved his biggest rocks for Harold Stassen. Trumpeting "dictatorship," Shipstead hinted at "small, select, secret meetings" with the "bosses in the East." Cried he: "They have prostituted the primary . . . [Stassen] must have eaten pretty red meat at his luncheons and dinners on his trips to New York...
...Council, he should become aware of the amazingly small share of democratic control he is allowed to exercise over this Council, of the pitifully small voice he actually has in this supposedly representative body. He should realize that each Council, through a complicated procedural device, may control the selection of a slate from which 60 per cent of the succeeding Council is chosen. And he should know that this 60 per cent will arbitrarily select the remaining members of the new Council, in the manner of many exclusive organizations that make no pretense of representation and do not label themselves...
...Earl of Halifax became one of the select company (limited to 24 living persons) awarded the Order of Merit...
...dutifully obeyed for a mile, decided he could wait no longer, and set out for the leaders. Assault overtook them in the home stretch, finished three lengths ahead. His winning time (2:30 4/5) was nothing sensational, but the victory put the Texas-bred horse into racing's select seven that have won All Three.* It also made Assault the 13th biggest prizewinner in history, with $316,270. Lord Boswell ran out of the money, in fifth place...
...fought as a Confederate cavalry officer with General John H. Morgan's Raiders, died when he was only three, victim of the great yellow fever epidemic of 1878. His mother, daughter of a once wealthy North Carolina family, and a woman who had been educated in a select Philadelphia female academy, raised her brood of three children alone...