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...Paris. Caulaincourt therefore was to inform Ragusa of the changed plans, proceed to Paris with Napoleon's abdication, stall for time in negotiations with Alexander, while Napoleon maneuvered his troops and those of Ragusa in preparation for battle out side the city walls. The threat alone might sway the Allies to favor Napoleon...
Such was the reveaing prophecy of Mogul, the Mad Medium who holds sway at the Keith Memorial Theatre in the Grand Lounge. Over 200 men and women were squirming with anticipatory nervousness, just for those precious minutes with Mogul. Once in the Presence, they could ask him any question, be it great or small, that was troubling their minds...
...This election demonstrated that the power of the press to sway public opinion in this country is dying if not dead . . . that people read newspapers these days to get facts-baseball and football and stockmarket scores, weather reports, facts from the fighting fronts and the war medicine distilleries, shopping tips-but that they either don't read or don't rely on editorials...
When the back is broken, first-aiders "should gently roll the victim on to a blanket so that he rests face downward. When the blanket is lifted, the victim's back sags, thus making him sway-back and removing pressure from the spinal cord...
...times before the crowd permitted him to be heard. Then, halting frequently, with eyes often searching anxiously for his place in his manuscript, Alf Landon read the closing speech of his campaign, not a much better orator than he began it. But the crowd which his oratory could not sway continued to cheer for they had come like most Alf Landon crowds because they liked the big sign that hung in the Auditorium. Its letters spelled out, "You Can Believe Landon," but it was no compliment to the Republican Nominee. It expressed the crowd's opinion of Franklin Roosevelt...