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Author Nevins' 200-page study of the corruption of Grant's Administration, and his two chapters devoted to the President, only deepen the mystery of Grant's personality, although they reveal more clearly than any previous work the character of his weaknesses. Telling again the story of the Whiskey Ring exposure, the panic of 1873, the affair of the U. S. Minister to England who floated a dishonest mining corporation, of Attorney General Williams who paid his large household expenses with Federal funds, of Grant's scheme to annex Santo Domingo for the benefit...
...them in their grave than doing any one of a great number of things- using rouge, receiving the attentions of boys, kissing, being bad generally. Finally they came to believe that their father would rather see them in their grave than doing anything. They studied books calculated to deepen their "modesty of mien and deportment." Learning that men were apt to be turned into "wild beasts" if such modesty was departed from, Eleanor could only picture a raging beast in terms of a dog she had once seen go mad, was consequently very modest lest she send the baker...
...with The Ordeal of Mark Twain five years later. Last week Van Wyck Brooks offered the first volume of a literary history of the U. S. that surpassed all his previous books and that, as the first unified modern appraisal of the giants of native culture, seemed bound to deepen the influence he has exerted ever since he began to write...
...with all the high hope that the ticker tape revealed, there were plenty of fears that the current business recession would deepen. Said Economic Statistics, Inc. last week: "We expect quite a sharp reaction in both industrial and manufacturing activity during the month...
Taking the long view of trade prospects, most businessmen were frankly sanguine. NRAftermath jitters might deepen the current downward dip in the business curve but when recovery was resumed it would be broader and brighter. The stock-market relapse in any event was overdue after a two-month climb and was accelerated by the plight of the French franc (see p. 19). The fall in commodities was aggravated by President Roosevelt's gloomy forecast that wheat might drop to 36? per bu., cotton to 5? per lb. unless the Constitution were amended (see p. 11). And general uncertainty...