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Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: a friendless high-tariff Democrat who has long occupied himself with legislative trifles; a conservative, not over-diligent Senator whose only influence upon national matters is his own vote. His term expires March 3, 1933.-ED.
"Before my own conscience and in the light of my duty to the Fatherland I will not entrust such power to a party which intends to make use of it so one-sidedly ! . . . You are to be then in opposition! I trust you will oppose in a way that will...
. . . [His] present wealth is now solidly invested in the best available bonds . . . in a strong box in New York." Lazy Washington newsmen and skeptics called the FORTUNE article "inspired" for campaign purposes. Such was not the case. It represented diligent independent research from original sources, checked against data supplied by...
Twenty years ago, when Amy McCormick was still Mrs. Edwin Shields Adams, wife of a broker now deceased, she sat down one day before an easel in the art class of Painter Ralph Clarkson. After a few hours' diligent effort, she found Tutor "larkson looking over her shoulder. "How long...
A physician's public service may be rewarded by glory (viz. Lord Dawson of Penn, personal physician to King George and the Prince of Wales), fun (viz. the late Brigadier-General Charles E. Sawyer, President Harding's physician), power (viz. Surgeon William Schroeder Jr., head of New York...