Wherry

The line is busy.

Will you hold, please? Senator Wherry.

Thank you.

Immediately, they started using Washington's most overworked utility, the telephone.

Since that time, Hoover, Landon, Wilkie, and Dewey have gone down to defeat at the hands of the Democrats.

Although they did not win the 1950 elections, the Republicans made great gains and right now stand an even chance of winning in 1952.

Just the other day, a reporter asked Republican Senator Wherry if he wanted to impeach Mr. Truman.

Let me ask you this, then.

These run through blocks fixed to stakes in the river bottom.

It ain't a warm job always to keep watch at night, you think, but ain't your eel bloke as tough as most folk? And ain't his kettle of hot tea allus on the hob? If a wherryman looms up, he sings out to other, who slacks the rope, pulls the lines, and down goes the top line, and there you are.

Wherrymen know where they're set as well as the eel blokes do, and 'tain't often as damage is done.

Three or four openings in this wall of net have long 18- or 20-foot purse nets attached, which, as you saw, are kept open by means of hoops fastened to 'em.

These pods, as they term 'em, are laid and staked downstream, their positions being marked by floats.