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Earl has absolute control over more than 40 state boards, departments and commissions. He holds the liquor industry under his thumb by means of a board with vast regulatory powers. He can influence Louisiana's $204 million oil industry, its $14 million sulphur industry, its $112 million lumber industry through his Conservation Commission...
...Hurry, hurry, my dear friend, thumb over your Plutarch and choose a subject familiar to everyone-it counts a great deal." Jacques-Louis David, the painter prophet of the French Revolution, was advising a favorite pupil. "Now give yourself to what really constitutes history painting," he went on. "All other sorts . . . will disappear; only this is safe from men's passions...
Checks. The Omaha National Bank put in circulation the first checks printed in Braille for the blind. They can be made out in fixed amounts ($5, $10, $25 and $100) and, as a special guard against forgery, are signed with thumb prints...
...after Hearst's News-Post went to press, the man changed his story in one important detail: he had actually killed the girl while they were inside the Baltimore city limits. That brought the murder case within the range of the state courts in Baltimore, and a powerful thumb on the press, called Rule...
Walter ("Death Valley Scotty") Scott, the West's most publicized "desert rat," was up & around again at 70-odd after a routine encounter with a rattlesnake. Struck on the thumb, Scotty doctored himself: he yanked the snake off, slashed the wound, applied serum from his handy kit, trotted home to live...