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...case with another Bureau of Internal Revenue official and remarked, "I don't know how that ties in with what the Senator told you." Bridges' comment: "There are 95 other Senators and there are probably 3,000 state senators and 50 former United States Senators, and several thousand of that sort, and it might have been anybody, and I do not recall anything of that kind." Said DeWind: "Mr. Oliphant told the committee that you were the only Senator he recalls ever discussing the case with...
...thousand Taft workers were ringing doorbells, saturating the state with newspaper ads, radio programs, buttons, auto-bumper cards and literature. Taft & Co. were shooting the works in boom-busting Wisconsin.* Campaign Manager Dave Ingalls had said: "If we don't win in Wisconsin we'd better go home...
...Tignards watched the bulldozers roll into their valley, heard the dynamite blasts, and declared a day of mourning. Some of them tried to drive the invaders out by wrecking their machines and burning their toolsheds. Others met the future more practically; they clamored for more compensation money than the thousand million francs the company offered them. For five years temporary injunctions came and went like winter snows. All the while the concrete wall at the valley's end rose higher and higher...
That kind of good news travels fast. Soon a swarm of handout seekers buzzed around him, ten visitors a day from outlying districts, "a thousand letters a day from people all over France, Italy, Switzerland and Belgium." The abbé lit out for Paris, partly to escape, partly to pick up his fat check and two second-hand Citroens for 1,500,000 francs...
...thousand Medford housewives were interviewed by University researchers this week in a survey to determine the factors influencing meat consumption...