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...beneath the easy, tranquil surface of both family and boy there flowed some unusual undercurrents. Charlie was trained to use guns as soon as he was old enough to hold them???and so were his brothers. "I'm a fanatic about guns," says his father, Charles A., 47. "I raised my boys to know how to handle guns." Charlie could plug a squirrel in the eye by the time he was 16, and in the Marine Corps he scored 215 points out of a possible 250, winning a rating as a sharpshooter, second only to expert. In the Marines, though...
...looked like day. There was a terrible explosion, and the front part of the roof started to cave in. The boy and I ran to the chimney at the back of the roof. Russians on top of the roof across the street from us?I hadn't even seen them???started shooting. I said to myself. 'This is death' and felt pretty calm." Ferenc and the boy got away. At the restaurant Ferenc took a big drink of the restaurant owner's wine, left him some money, went home and slept for 36 hours...
...denied?to them and to their children. Still they laughed, and wept, and sang, while through the South the cotton fields bloomed white beneath their patient labor. And then, amid the clamor of the guns, a voice proclaiming Freedom, and the chains fell off and a light flooded over them???free?free...
...business. That complete reliance should be placed on getting news to the American people through normal channels of publicity. ... I told them that there were certain policies which Germany had [on Jews] which were bound to antagonize American public opinion and to attempt to secure favorable American opinion toward them???such attempts would be futile and, in the second place, objectionable. ... In the very beginning I stipulated that there should be no dissemination whatever by me of information in the U. S. . . . I never distribute anything for clients in my name. My position is that every client of mine must...
...enforcement act, it repealed its excise laws for liquor regulation. When in 1923 it repealed the same act, its statutes were left bare of authority to cope with the saloon. In many a state last week governors announced they would not tinker their local laws?or lack of them???until the 18th Amendment was repealed...