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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vigil began: by his wife, daughter, two boys and three hastily reconciled brothers at the bedside; by his miscellaneous henchmen in the corridor outside; by a brigade of newshawks downstairs; by a truculent detachment of State troopers and bodyguards around the building who were ordered to shoot photographers on sight; and by a horde of onlookers who shuffled up & down in front of the hospital. While the Senator's political enemies buried Assassin Weiss with honor in a nearby Catholic cemetery next day, the Senator's doctors ordered five successive blood transfusions, adrenalin injections, an oxygen tent. Toward...
...itself, of the full galleries and the empty floor. The Senate, on the other hand, has never permitted itself to be photographed in action. Like a dignified gentlemen's club, it has successfully enforced an unwritten rule against cameras by having hawk-eyed gallery guards confiscate them on sight...
...Fair Grounds was a whirlwind of exciting spectacles. The State amateur baseball championship was settled, while 4-H Club teams grunted through their Kittenball tournament. Back of the Live Stock building fiddlers squeaked in competition, while young men in knitted shirts pitched championship horseshoes. The Fair offered no greater sight than the team pulling contest. The first time F. F. Martin of Bridgewater tried to hitch his huge draft horses to the pulling machine (a truck rigged backwards) the beasts took fright when the doubletree dropped against their heels, tossed Owner Martin, bolted into the crowd. The next time they...
...wounded men, told that he would lose his sight, cried out, "Then I want to see Il Duce before I go blind!" During the World War, when Corporal Benito Mussolini was down with 42 shrapnel splinters in his epidermis, King Vittorio Emanuele came to his hospital bedside. Last week the Dictator hurried to the wounded man who had asked...
...plane thundered out of sight Addis Ababa buzzed with rumors that Fat Chaps had also obtained a $20,000,000 dam and pumping station concession at Lake Tana, the object being to increase the volume of water reaching the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan...