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Through the confusion strode troubled Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, urging the crowds to go home, trying to justify the hope of decent Americans that the race problem need not be thrashed out in wartime violence. Said he, irascible but patient, with his own peculiar dignity...
This situation was soon remedied by an officer who improvised a pay chit out of an old envelope. With this slip in hand, the half-pint "officer" waited his turn in line and then strode up and presented it to an amazed disbursing officer...
...between two hills we came into full view of the enemy, who could now strike us with enfilading fire. Some soldiers drove into a narrow ditch to ascend the slope, but the Colonel strode straight up the hill. As we climbed everyone grew faint, turning pale and looking at each other in the naked frankness of misery...
...strode into the big third floor room in Washington's Social Security Building for his first press conference, stood silent a moment while flash bulbs popped, then reached for a prepared manuscript and began to read. It was a statement positive in tone, full of "will do" and "won't do." But in the light of the House action, it sounded throughout, to the newsmen, like "I had intended to do" and "it had been my hope not to do. . . ." Read Hoyt...
...Opening at Riobamba, Pepe and cohorts were moving on to Ambato when a platoon of corabineros popped up and arrested them. Given 24 hours to get out of Ecuador, stubborn Pepe balked and a 40-soldier escort literally carried him over the border into Colombia. On March 5 he strode into Quito's central police headquarters, demanded a trial. Instead he was whisked off to the village calaboose at Guaranda. On May 23 President Arroyo del Rio ordered the disconsolate Pepe released for three days to attend the funeral of a Chilean uncle, distinguished Dr. Victor Eastman...