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...many spectators as could jam into the room. In tribute to the drawing power of the late great Morgan, his namesake was kept on the stand as much as possible though he could give few details. To get an accurate account of transactions Partner Whitney had to bear the brunt of questioning. When the house had been sold out for three successive days, the show moved into the Senate Caucus Room, largest available. Said Senator Glass: "All that is lacking is peanuts and pink lemonade...
...proceeds to Pianist Rudolph Ganz, president of the Bohemian Club which is concentrating this year on helping indigent musicians. Everyone in the audience knew that the modest contra-bassist was the founder of the Chicago Businessmen's Orchestra, that for eleven years he had borne the brunt of its expenses, given it a place to rehearse in his big Hub Store. Boxing, not music, was George Lytton's hobby when he first joined his father in the men's clothing business. He used to be regarded as amateur heavyweight champion, fought in his youth against Jim Corbett...
...only legitimate complaint of the Freshmen is that their class has been singled out to bear the brunt of the new system of assignments. Because of the widely varying composition of the Houses at present, some men will find that they have been put into a House where their own set is submerged, and that they are, in a sense, martyrs to the ideal of the cross section. This situation, however, will correct itself another year, and the outcome should be in healthy contrast to the situation of the last two years, with its "social deserts" and large-scale proselytism...
...Livingston Mills and smokes a 6-in. cigar at about the same angle. Mr. Await, so rushed that his uncut black hair hung over the tops of his ears, kept saying: "We're snowed under, we're snowed under." On him since last September has fallen the brunt of liquidating more than 1,000 closed national banks...
Mississippi's Rankin-This is no time to make the veteran bear the brunt of this depression...