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...Benson, N. Y., Walter D. Canfield, 80, saw a deer, intently aimed, fired, fell dead as his bullet sped neatly into and killed the deer...
...week to 500 campaign workers at Manhattan's Hotel Biltmore. It was his first visit to his national headquarters. He had just returned from his Southern tour, with his voice hoarse and the lining of his felt hat hanging out. After a handshake and a smile all around, he sped to Albany where Al Smith visited him for the first time in nearly a year...
Whenever trouble brewed in ancient Rome, messengers sped south to the Cumaean Rock, a many-chambered volcanic promontory twelve miles west of Naples. Therein, "hidden far from sight within her sanctuary dark and drear, dwelt the dread Sibyl, whom the Delian seer inspired with soul and wisdom to unfold the things to come"* Complaisant with the Romans' plea the Sibyl would shuffle inscribed leaves, deal them upon her grotto floor, to be construed there by her votaries...
...crooked bankers, corrupt Tammany politicians and criminals in general to run riot through New York while he was trying to sell his presidential services to the country at large. Before the conventions he drew a memorable picture entitled "The Mysterious Powerless Phenomenon" in which Governor Roosevelt, hugging Miss 1932, sped by the Party Powers in an old buggy with empty shafts. Because his work is widely syndicated, Cartoonist Darling considers it his prime duty to jest on all subjects, to produce a smile before delivering a partisan thrust...
After a brief stop in Detroit, he sped back to Albany, turned abruptly from national to local politics. On the eve of the Democratic State convention the Tammany tiger was again on the rampage...