Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have always thought the phrase "Like a hog going to war" had to do with their indecision when they hit a slick spot...
Chattered Howland Spencer: "I like Divine's ideas. He is a great constitutionalist. ... I thought of the steamboats that will bring thousands of colored people from New York to swim in the Hudson here and have picnics on the hills, and it sort of amused me. . . . Whether we meant it or not, this really will annoy Franklin a great deal...
...Goshen early last year. Deprived though they were of the conveniences of an army post, the Giffins, Smiths, et al. worked, drank, played in traditional fashion. Known throughout the army for his capacity, his peculiar humor and his misadventures, Colonel Giffin was the card of a clique who thought the hot foot was good fun and snatched hats from fellow barflies. Lieut, and Mrs. Smith lived with and on the Giffins for three months, incurred the dislike of other officers and wives, finally departed. The manner of their going turned out to be an issue at the trial...
...project, engineered by the Federal Bureau of Reclamation with $15,000,000 of PWTA funds. Mightily pleased, on the other hand, was Price Campbell, publicity-wise president of West Texas Utilities Co. which stands to lose a 200-mile circle of its power customers to the Authority. President Campbell thought he had found a good demonstration of an old powerman's axiom: That power generation and flood control are conflicting purposes, because an empty dam cannot run generators and a full dam cannot store flood waters...
...receiverships, debentures come before stock. So Floyd Odium's aces looked better than Howard Hopson's kings. In any case, Bill Douglas stands to win, for Floyd Odium hastened to say that he, for one, would not appeal any "death sentence" for U. P. & L. He thought it was "good economics apart from any statutory requirement...