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...forward end of the exhibition room is a tableau depicting an overnight camp on the ice. Such camps were necessary when a party went out from Little America to explore or gather scientific data. A tent accommodating two men stands in the center of the display; in the foreground is the powerful radio with which the party transmitted its daily report of the condition of the men, dogs, and food supply back to Little America. The Nansen cooker and the device for melting snow into drinking water are also shown...
Into Evangelist Jeffers' big tent crowded 5,000 excited people. Guardsmen trained machine guns upon them. Capt. Eldridge warned Evangelist Jeffers to cease his ''slanderous attacks." Retorted Evangelist Jeffers: "I take orders from no one except God." Perspiring, Capt. Eldridge waited. "If the Rev. Joe Jeffers makes any more dirty cracks . . ." he said, "we'll take him and his tent out of town." Trembling with excitement the town waited...
Delegates cheered. Spectators who had paid 25? admission looked puzzled. Some one started singing "The More We Get Together." Rain pattered down on the tent roof. After much debate the brand-new Liberty Party formed a national platform: 1) a five-year moratorium on all private debts, including mortgages; 2) free silver coinage at a 16-to-1 gold ratio; 3) government ownership of all banks; 4) government ownership of public utilities; 5) abolition of taxes; 6) unsecured paper currency. Out of the Liberty Party's platform was kept a "wild suggestion by a St. Louis statistician" that...
...like the devil. Biographer Lytle, strong Forrest partisan, implies that if Forrest's abilities had been recognized in time the western campaign might have had a different outcome. But Forrest's commander was General Braxton Bragg, whom Forrest soon distrusted, finally despised. One day he stamped into Bragg's tent, spoke thus: "You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them. And I will hold you personally responsible for any further indignities you try to inflict on me. You have threatened to arrest me for not obeying your orders promptly. I dare...
...body last week placed it on a sledge. Around and over the sledge they built a mausoleum of ice blocks. Then they went hunting for Rasmus. For a space his spoor was plain. From the grave he had wavered twelve miles toward the coast. He left his tent pegs there. Ten miles further on was the debris of a dog camp. Beyond, no signs...