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...take exception to your footnote in which you quote an excerpt from the Senator's statement during the Broussard-Overton senatorial investigation in which he said: ''Since the counsel wants to know, we collected for Tin-States when they were with us, and for the Progress [Huey Long's own slandering weekly] when they were with us. Yes, sir, we help our friends when they are with...
...Chicago police, on orders from City Hall, ferreted out all available copies of the Mangan pamphlet, destroyed them while Chicago sniggered. Last week's tax disclosures did not help Mayor Kelly's already poor standing with President Roosevelt who as Governor of New York ousted Sheriff Thomas ("Tin Box'') Farley because he could not adequately explain his large income. Governor Roosevelt laid down this rule: "Where a public official is under inquiry and it appears that his scale of living or the total of his bank deposits far exceeds his public salary, he owes a positive...
Each year at the Dublin Horse show, The Irish Independent exhibits some outlandish animal or object, offers a prize to the one who can guess its name. When this year's show opened last week the Independent was displaying, in a shallow biscuit tin the last thing an Irishman might expect to see in Dublin-canned rattlesnake...
...cloth for their uniforms he cut from the backs of fellow-prisoners. From his guards he bought tin for the tiny swords which could be drawn from the scabbards, for the bayonets which could be fixed, fur and hair for the headgear which could be removed, leather for the boots and belts. Every gaiter, buckle, knapsack was exact. Even the tiny buttons were embossed with the French eagle. He trimmed the mustaches according to each regiment's custom, gave fair hair to the northern troops, black to the southerners. The beardless drummer boy wore wooden shoes, striped trousers...
...wanted to take a hot bath you have two choices. You could go to the Yard and sponge off a friend or you could go to your own bath tub in Kirkland. If you did the latter you would still have two choices, making hot water in a tin kettle or warming yourself up. If you did the latter there is only one sure-fire way, even if you make a wry face...