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...threats against Alfalfa Bill. Afraid that the Republican governor of the Oklahoma territory would tamper with the new state's constitution, Bill-walked off with the original document in his pocket. To guard Murray and his papers friends formed a brigade of 5,000 citizens, dubbed themselves the Squirrel Rifles. Everyone said the brigade was a joke, but it was a joke with a point. No one fooled with Alfalfa Bill. The state was born pretty much along the lines which Bill had planned...
...unit, a $200, bright-red version of the Gl mine-detector, was purchased because turn - of - the - century plumbers were illiterate and could not record where they had laid their pipes, Robinson said, "Now," he added, "every time a squirrel runs down a drain and clogs it up, the plumbers have to dig up half of Cambridge to find the trouble...
...Wall-gren, an amiable, poker-playing crony, to the Federal Power Commission, and New York's former Senator James M. Mead to the Federal Trade Commission. The Senate quickly confirmed them both, ^f Appointed Richard Feeney, 5, son of a White House employee, as an official White House squirrel feeder-providing i) the boy draws no pay, and 2) furnishes his own peanuts...
...Squirrel & Cage. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps had opened for the government with an able but unexciting defense of his devaluation of the pound. When his turn to speak came, Winston Churchill peered owlishly over his spectacles and said that the Labor government's policy and makeshift expedients had brought the nation close to bankruptcy. A Laborite heckled: "Sell your horse!" Churchill shot back: "I could sell him* for a great deal more than I paid for him, but I am trying to rise above the profit motive...
Churchill made cruel fun of Cripps for declaring so frequently that he would never devalue, then being forced into the horrid step "higgledy-piggledy." He said the Chancellor had "[turned] completely round like a squirrel in his cage." Churchill twirled his stubby forefinger to indicate the. squirrel's acrobatics, as the packed benches rocked with laughter...