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...achieving Americans," men from modest Main Street beginnings who, through ambition and ability, rose to the U.S. Senate and to a place at the right hand of a President. Even when the easy life became available to them, it could not lure them from the burdens ?and ambitions???of public service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: IN SEARCH OF POLITICAL MIRACLES | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

...BLOOD?Harold H. Armstrong? Harper ($2.00). Dr. Wellington Dennison McNicol was a doer ? go-getter ? a red-blood ? from his youth up. Handicapped at the start by poverty, illegitimate birth and the surroundings of a decayed Canadian village, he never faltered in his ambitions??? to marry the girl he wanted, to make money, to be a Great Man. And, like an energetic person he achieved his aims. Middle age found him wealthy, married to a girl far superior to his original intended, and the father of a family to carry on the red-blood tradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: A Son at the Front-- | 9/24/1923 | See Source »

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