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...Richford in upState New York in 1839, John Rockefeller moved to Cleveland with his parents in 1853. His father, a restless, rollicking, lovable quack with dubious sources of income, including horse trading and hawking a cancer cure, was often absent from home for weeks at a time, used to cheat his sons to teach them sharpness. Where or when the father died is a secret which the Rockefellers have never divulged. The pious mother, Eliza Davison Rockefeller, brought up the moral balance...
...than geography, but here is a people living on this lovely mountain slope, snow-rimmed Mt. Etna clear in the distance, the Mediterranean below; oranges, almonds, lemons and flowers of every variety growing in abundance--and nothing much more important to do but work their donkeys, have babies, and cheat Americans...
...must be admitted that some of the dialogue is amusing, but too much of it partakes of the nature of this remark, which turns up in the midst of some supposedly sophisticated love-making: "Your feet are too big." The chief character turns out to be a cheat; he's not a gangster, but merely a charming fellow escaping from a subpoena as witness in a divorce. The climax of the plot is indicated by the fact that you catch on to this long before it's revealed, but this does not make the preliminary scene that fools...
...unburdening himself. At first he writes for newspapers, magazines, or any sort of publishing business he can find willing to accept his work. In this venture he finds no outlet, and when he meets the one woman whom he can really love, he agrees to her proposal that they cheat life by taking their own lives. It is only when he realizes that by exposing his soul, by writing his innermost thoughts and emotions, he can find happiness, that he sees the folly in this. Thus out of the gloom and depression of his adolescence, he finds...
...drag President Roosevelt into court and charge him with malfeasance in devaluing the U. S. dollar in such fashion as to "cheat" holders of U. S. Government bonds is impossible, but under French law last week the French Taxpayers Federation, which claims a membership of 1,000,000 filed such a suit against both Premier Leon Blum and Finance Minister Vincent Auriol...