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...supporter of homes and pensions for disabled veterans. He tore the field of Gettysburg from the hands of souvenir hunters, made it a national shrine. He arranged the famed Gettysburg reunions of Blue and Grey. General Longstreet became his bosom friend. "[Your stand at Gettysburg]," wrote Longstreet, "was the sorest and saddest reflection of my life for many years; but today I can say . . . that it was . . . the best that could have come...
...Week, no event means more than the simple, spectacular Graduation Parade that thus took place one afternoon this week. To relatives and sweethearts it was the grand climax to the grinding life they had been hearing about for months or years. To plebes it meant the end of their sorest year and the balm of recognition by upperclassmen. To the graduating class it marked a poignant end and a challenging beginning. And to the Long Grey Line, some of them stooped in mufti, it symbolized the yearly renewal of a strong, 143-year-old tradition to which they had devoted...
Senator W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniell, Texas' professionally folksy hillbilly, rubbed jampacked Washington on its sorest nerve by buying a four-story, 14-farnily apartment house near the Capitol. Ordering eviction of all the outraged present tenants, Pappy explained: "Texans like a little room to move about. We don't like to be fenced in. I want ... a fair-sized home ... I can put a cookstove...
Concert of Votes. The sorest point settled at Yalta was the dispute over voting procedure in the postwar world Security Council...
Then Protestants rubbed Catholic Mexico's sorest spot-history. In newspaper advertisements, they again laid the blame for the French invasion of Mexico (1864) at Church doors. In mid-November Archbishop Martínez pastoral letter blazed at "the perfect organization and powerful financial resources" of Protestant sects. Martinez was further quoted in an interview: "If Catholics believe that a powerful boycott might be one of the effective remedies [for Protestant activity], certainly they should...