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...lawyer, a grandnephew of the late Elihu Root, started a one-man campaign for Mr. Willkie, whom he had never met. Mr. Root's first step was to mail thousands of statements (each carrying spaces for 15 signatures) declaring the signers' enthusiasm for Mr. Willkie as President. Straightway he began to receive contributions. last week opened an office, announced he had already received 35,000 requests for "declarations." What did Mr. Willkie's Root intend to do with all these fertilizing signatures? Mr. Root had not yet decided...
Henry Horner was known to one-&-all in Illinois as an honest, jovial old baldicoot who loved movies, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and his job as Governor. In November 1938, good Mr. Horner fell ill, straightway became a man of mystery. In the last 17 months probably no more than a dozen people have seen him. His illness has been variously reported: a stroke, a second stroke, a third, a blood clot, a heart spasm, cancer of the throat, pneumonia, diabetes, paralysis...
...being dragooned into war against the will of the vast majority of her citizens. Failure to protest against this coercion would brand us as false prophets." This manifesto obviously broke the four missionaries' pledges. Mindful of their church's stake, India's U. S. Methodist bishops straightway got their Board of Foreign Missions in Manhattan to authorize the homecoming of Missionaries < Smith and Keene-who obediently went home...
...someone who knew the neighborhood. How else could he have known about J. E. Mackey, storekeeper of neighboring Rome, who had gone to Costa Mesa, Calif, to live? Mackey was the next to get a $100 surprise. The next, Mrs. Henry S. Wilson, another widow of an Ava merchant, straightway ran across the street to show her friend old Dr. Jasper Leonard Gentry her check for $50. Said she: "You'll be next to get one of these...
...tank. Four other porpoises in the tank caught the excitement, milled around and signaled to one another by wheezing through their blowholes. The mother went down to the bottom and rubbed her belly, apparently without injuring the baby. Finally, after three hours, she completed her delivery. The baby straightway sank to the bottom. As though aware that it would drown if it stayed there, the mother made efforts to raise it to the surface, but she gave up after a few attempts and swam away...