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...Clapper (Scripps-Howard). "Slump," wailed Columnist Dorothy Thompson (New York Herald Tribune), who printed reports that the President is in a "down" mood. Even Franklin Roosevelt's closest adherents questioned his two-week cruise; wondered how he dared leave. Washington seemed to be sinking back into the swamp whence it was reclaimed...
...swamp near Beckleyville, Md. are hidden tombstones (dumped there by road builders) which will disperse the genealogical mystery separating the $20,000,000 estate of Henrietta Garrett of Philadelphia from some 25,000 claimants...
Birmingham is almost a T. C. I. creation. When General Sherman marched to the sea, Birmingham was part cornfield, part foul-smelling swamp. In the '70s some damyankee speculators swooped down, began exploiting the rich, freak coal, iron and limestone deposits. Called "The Magic City," Birmingham spent its youth in filth, poverty, lawlessness. At one time it was called The Murder Capital of the World. When control of T. C. I. switched to U. S. Steel in 1907, Birmingham began to grow up. Slowly, painfully, the town spread out, cleaned up. Bursting with faith in the city...
This last four days of rain has practically changed the Business School field back into the swamp that it originally was. This soggy ground makes today's outcome more unpredictable, for anything can happen when both teams start skidding and tripping...
...wish to tell you that I have not yet met the Filipino who has the exaggerated patriotism of desiring a separation now. It will be finding ruby in the swamp if you can find 5 out of every 100 Filipinos who favor independence. And if 5% of a nation is not in favor of independence I think that independence should better be kept somewhere else where it would not kick that nation to extinction...