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...there was added the hope (secretly entertained perhaps) that some day somehow we too would find ourselves in the National Capital close to the great wheels whose motion so controls the lives of our countrymen and directs the destiny of the Nation. As one of the latter class I confess a profound sense of gratitude that the turn of fate finds me in Washington at a time when the Republic is in the midst of one of the most heroic struggles in its history...
...still faintly reflected today in his American Weekly (circulation: 6,000,000). Snorting brontosauri with swarms of pterodactyls perched on their backs go gallivanting from the primordial slime across the toes of fabulous princesses, heiresses and actresses who, swooning in ermine negligees with hot love-letters stacked around them, "confess all" under the shadow of Science's latest mechanical star-splitter, a device for laying the centuries end to end-so that they will reach from the pearly minarets of wicked Constantinople to the awesome depths of the profoundest ocean abyss yet plumbed by man ! Editorially the Journals were...
Pirandello enjoys sitting next to strangers at his plays, hearing them confess bewilderment over "what it means." Says he: "People say that my drama is obscure and they call it cerebral drama. . . . One of the novelties that I have given to modern drama consists in converting the intellect into passion...
Great was the disturbance in parts of Wall Street, great the joy of reformers, great the approval of many business men and bankers who felt it high time that a banker should frankly come forward, confess his sins and speak freely to restore public confidence in bankers. Not only has Chase a securities affiliate but it has investment bankers on its board (Frank Altschul of Lazard Freres; Frederic W. Allen of Lee, Higginson; Clarence Dillon of Dillon, Read; Charles Hayden of Hayden, Stone, etc., etc.). And it has one of the largest bank directorates in the country: 71 members...
...Church, Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, who last week sermonized: "It is not necessary to call the business leaders to Washington to tell Congress how to end the Depression. Let the bankers and speculators and great corporation heads who are guilty get down not before the Senate but before God and confess their sins, and the air will be cleared...