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...Aaron Breakspeare and Enoch Gib. Aaron, the popular, engaging, lovable idealist; Enoch the dour and practical, well-hated, well-feared. The men clashed over two things? a woman and steel. Popular Aaron won the woman but his dream of a steel age failed?it was still too early. Enoch clung to iron?and when Aaron's son, John Breakspeare, brought his father back to New Damascus, dead, the clash between practical Enoch and young Breakspeare, between iron and steel, was renewed. The time was ripe for the monstrous birth of the steel age? Enoch, singlehanded, fought vainly against...
...entrusted to it for collection. One of the main aims of the Federal Reserve system has always been to eliminate such tariffs, and to establish a uniform practice throughout the country of clearing all checks at par as far as possible. The tenacity with which the Southern bankers have clung to their collection charges for out-of-town exchange has provided most of the protest against the Reserve system below the Mason and Dixon line. Such charges have proved, however, a burden and a nuisance to American business, and sentiment in general is with the Reserve in its par collection...
...mastery of diatribe and skill in the strategy of legislative wrangling, he had made himself Democratic floor leader in the House. In four years more?four strenuous years of war time activity?he had brought on himself a stroke of paralysis from overwork. For three years he had clung to his seat in Congress and continued to hold, for all his ill health, at least the nominal leadership of the House Democrats. Now he is dead...
...bill in 1911, the House of Lords was stripped of much of its past power. But British conservatism and love of tradition has not allowed the movement to carry away the form of society under which the nation has thrived for nine centuries. The English people have clung with jealous determination to their king, and have always resented any implications that their system of aristocracy might be behind the times...
Jumping off the line at a lively clip, both eights remained on even terms for the first dozen strokes, but here Bassett, setting the pace for the seconds, let the beat down to a long 34. The third crew, however, stroked by R. F. Bradford '23, clung to their original pace and burned out half a length's lead before the quarter mile was reached...