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...Chicago was on. National Chairman Harrison Spangler took up quarters at the Stevens Hotel. Dewey managers streamed out of New York; California's keynoting Governor Earl Warren boarded a special car loaded with West Coast GOPoliticos. In Chicago's cavernous stadium, 25 blocks from the Loop, workmen tacked up flags and bunting, strung 600 miles of special wire, while the genial host, Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly, set up an economical sign that would serve to welcome the Democrats...
...Workmen who grubbed in the wreckage of the art shops for weeks after the raid recovered $1,000,000 worth of paintings and furniture...
...Paris, workmen were fencing off some of the parks, including the Luxembourg Gardens, apparently as part of a plan to corral the city's entire male population when trouble starts...
Coulee Labor. At the 1,000,000 horsepower Grand Coulee dam, workmen resorted to one catpower. To get a cable through 500 feet of winding, 24-inch drainpipe, they tied a piece of string to the cable, then tied the string to a cat's tail (see cut), then dispatched the cat through the pipe, "energizing" the animal from behind with a powerful compressed-air blower...
making it quite impossible for workmen to carry on their work." He said: "It is to me full justification for the present bombing campaign. I can not give the Bishop of Chichester any hope that we shall abate our bombing policy. On the contrary, we shall continue it in increasing power and with more crushing effect until the final victory is assured." At the present moment, he added, "It is not the Government's intention to drop bombs on the precincts of Vatican City, nor, if it can be avoided, on the city of Rome." Then a Roman Catholic...