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...months ago, for some dark reason, the inner council door suddenly slammed shut in Lyn Smith's face. One rumor was that he had dared to tell Henry Horner, who had been ill for over a year, that he should not run again for Governor. Control of the "slush" fund was taken out of Smith's hands, given to State Finance Director Sam Nudelman. Lyn Smith became visibly nervous. He took to carrying a revolver, surrounded himself with guards of State police. He still had his little black book, and he was reported to have told a newspaper...
...flag came down from the White House staff; a haggard, grey-faced, weary President was whisked over slush-bound streets to his special train on the lower concourse of echoing Union Station. Prying newsmen had discovered Franklin Roosevelt was headed for Pensacola, guessed he would there board the cruiser Tuscaloosa. But every movement had been shrouded in gloomy mystery; trainmen acted as if they had sealed orders, knew only that they were headed south. For the first time since his Administration began, Franklin Roosevelt had not furnished the press with an exactly detailed itinerary of his trip. ". . . Submarines," said...
...Scandinavian smiles--with a little plot thrown in for good measure. Ray Milland and Bob Cummings, in the roles of amorous newspaper correspondents, disappoint their city editors, but please the audience. And the broad, powdery expanse of Swiss Alps is a welcome sight after "Harvard Square's rutted slush...
...trapped divisions and their would-be rescuers, the woods were full of Finns. The relief forces, reported to be led by Russia's famed, swashbuckling Marshal Simeon Budenny, pounded the Finns' granite defense lines with artillery until the frozen earth was a morass of mud and slush, but every time they tried to break through they were caught in a murderous cross fire. As the Russian attacks grew weaker, the Finns took the offensive, capturing tanks and armored cars. Russian casualties mounted. The Finns, too, left many dead, but the Russian push was so disorganized that the Finns...
...fashionable gentilities of the Lowells and Longfellows, the transient Utopianisms of the Alcotts, the dated rhetoric of his contemporaries. What moderns can see, what his contemporaries missed, is that Thoreau meant what he said. He was, he declared, a "Realometer," working his feet "downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice and tradition, and delusion, and appearance ... to a hard bottom...