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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...east or west. To assuage their grief, awakened citizens of Danville induced the Cincinnati Southern Railway to survey its municipally owned "Queen and Crescent'' route via Danville, Ky., but notwithstanding this the stubborn old L. & N. refuses to make connection at the crossing and I've seen the latter's passenger trains pull out leaving Q. & C. passengers frantically trying to board the L. & N. Truly a dead hand governs the situation at Junction City, in the very geographical centre of Old Kentucky. Lesson: Beware, Hotel Clerks, lest you entertain angels unawares! COL. CLARENCE E. WOODS...
...Minister to the Irish Free State last September, William Wallace McDowell was chairman of the Democratic Central Committee in Montana and could have anything he wanted, within reason. Said he: "I wanted to be Minister in some country where they speak the English language. I've been mining copper for 35 years now, and most of the mines out there were dug by the Irish. They sometimes call Butte Little Ireland. One of my friends, the late Marcus Daly, who founded the Anaconda Copper Mining Co., was an Irishman. I am not trained in diplomacy or anything like that...
...Arlette Simon who married Stavisky. Conspirator Galmot tattled on Conspirator Stavisky. In 1928 Jean Galmot was mysteriously poisoned. A partly burned letter from Stavisky contained the sentence: "Galmot will find out what it costs to cross my path." On his deathbed Jean Galmot gasped: "The dirty dogs, they've killed me!'' ¶ No less interesting than the murders was the problem of what had become of the great cache of jewels that Stavisky succeeded in spiriting...
...cake, no cards-nothing pleasant about it." William begat six children. Edward Beecher (1803-95) was for a time president of Illinois College. In a best-selling theological work called The Conflict of Ages he carried on the family trend away from orthodoxy. Said his father: "Edward, you've destroyed the Calvinistic barns, but I hope you don't delude yourself that the animals are going into your little theological hencoop." Few theological animals went into the hencoop, which was a theory of the pre-existence of souls. Mary Foote Beecher (Mrs. Thomas C. Perkins, grandmother of Author...
...wife, he claimed, were compelled to sell their furniture to buy food. A Superior Court judge signed the order. "Heartbroken" and weeping, Mary Astor, whose last picture was Easy to Love, told her side of the story: "I have never refused to support my parents. . . . I've done everything in the world for them. They insist on living in the mansion and I can't support them in extravagance. In 1930 I gave them $1,000 a month and my father borrowed $18,000 on the house. That made $30,000. He took it and built an immense...