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...York Legislature (Senator, 1916-18, 1920-24), fought for the U. S. in the World War as First Lieutenant of Field Artillery. At the opening of the Spanish-American War, his uncle, Theodore Roosevelt, was Assistant Secretary of the Navy; he soon found the job too tame and resigned to lead the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill. Another Roosevelt, Franklin D., held the Navy post from 1913 to 1920; Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Assistant Secretary Robinson's cousin, next held the job (1921-1924, resigned). In Nahant, Mass., in November, 1924, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge on his deathbed heard...
...Panama. "The United States will never invade Mexico as long as it remains peaceful. There would be no excuse for intervention unless that country is far more turbulent than it has been. Intervention would mean annexation. Only an enormous army, for a long time, would be able to tame Mexico. No good American citizen who believes in the principles of the Constitution wants annexation...
...This irate old God who thunders imprecations from the mountain or mutters and grouches in the tabernacle, and whom Moses finds so hard to tame; who, in his paroxysms of rage, has massacred hundreds of thousands of his own chosen people, and would often have slaughtered the whole lot if cunning old Moses hadn't kept reminding him of 'what will the Egyptians say about it?' makes one feel utter contempt for the preachers and unfeigned pity for the mental state of those who can retail serious countenance as they per the stories of his peculiar whims...
...Leyelland, Tex., T. T. McDevitt's little buff prairie dog* sat on his rear stoop and scolded the children as they went to school. The children would stick their tongues out at him, for he was tame and scolded only because his mother and father, who were always running from rattlesnakes, taught him to. Last week he chased after the children, whistling all the while a shrill whine. This child's foot, that child's leg he nipped at. Then his jaws sagged open, his hind legs dragged a faint furrow in a Levelland street...
...funicular up Pike's Peak is 35 years old and for 21 years there has been a searchlight on the summit. The $2,500,000 State Capitol was finished way back in 1895. Denver still smelts lead for bullets and other useful articles, but for at least two decades tame agriculture, led by stub-horned cattle and sugar made from cowbeets, has been twice as important to Denver as mining...