Word: standings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Masons and non-Masons that no man will ever go to the White House who is not a 32nd Degree Mason. If true, here is a political factor far more important than the Legion. How many of our Presidents have been Masons, and how do the prospective 1940 candidates stand in this respect...
That same month the stockmarket crashed and the art business went to hell. But Cortlandt Bishop was rich enough to stand the strain. When he died in 1935 sales were picking up, and he left his own galleries the job of auctioning off his collection of art objects, books and engravings. Executors of the Bishop estate included his widow, Amy Bend Bishop, and his old friend and employe, Edith Nixon. Widow and friend were both dissatisfied with sales of the Bishop art. They looked about for a book expert to help courtly President Hiram Haney Parke (art specialist...
...Neither would have been surprised had she sold the territory short when the Federal troops were withdrawn at the Civil War's outbreak, leaving Tucson to be overrun by Mexican raiders and Apache scalping parties. But beauteous, powerful, 20-year-old Phoebe had Vision. "Right where ye stand," she told a dubious group of fellow Tucsonians, "right where this filthy, crumblin', ornery corner of hell is reelin' 'n' roarin' 'n' robbin' 'n' killin', there'll be a city-and wimmin 'n' homes...
...Under California's medical law, as he well knew, no doctor could operate without the patient's consent. And the patient would not consent. Said he: "If I don't die I will have it to do over again. I had more trouble than I could stand." Asked for an opinion, Attorney General Earl Warren told the hospital that Dr. Cardwell was within his rights. Mrs. Cardwell, found traveling with a friend, and Son Samuel Cardwell, who heard the news by radio, both agreed. So the doctors put their knives away, waited for the patient to suffer...
...ventures gave her experience, helped pay for the longer hops she took for the fun of it. She never quite broke even, though her extracurricular activities ranged from being a peripatetic faculty member of Purdue, to designing women's shirts with tails ample enough to let their wearers stand decently on their heads. A feminist (her husband "cannot remember introducing her even once as Mrs. Putnam") she was still feminine (her thought going through a thunderstorm over the Gulf of Mexico: "How pretty my ship must look against such a background-and there is nobody here...