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...antagonized good Democratic audiences by going wildly off the silver track. So important had Harvey become that he was later made chairman of the Democratic Ways & Means Committee to collect money for the 1900 campaign. As a result of a quarrel before that election, he resigned and retired in disgust to the hamlet of Monte Ne, Ark. There in a modest little house, he became something of a hermit, puttering around among the hills, issuing dire predictions on the fate of the nation unless radical economic changes were made. A-summer resort he tried to start became an industrial college...
...with a crate of nearly 200 hand grenades and spent a busy hour tossing them over the side, trying to hit the Presidential Palace. When his crate was empty he swooped down to see what damage he had done, saw it was small, flew off to Spain in disgust. Spanish authorities immediately interned both these prudent airmen...
...several times the support of Liberal Lloyd George has been all that has kept the Laborite Government in office. Recently Liberal oxen have galled under the Lloyd George yoke. Sir John Simon, busy last week in the defense of Lord Kylsant (see p. 17), left the party in disgust, was sped on his way by the hot little Welshman as follows...
...year ago Dr. Brüning said: "After the passage of the Young Plan, Germans thought there would be a decrease of taxation and better times. . . . Imagine their disgust, then, to find themselves confronted with the possibility of increased taxes!" This possibility Chancellor Brüning has made an actuality, raising taxes again and again, raising them a fourth time last week. Knowing the extreme depth of German disgust, advertising it to the world. Heinrich Brüning must have anxiously asked himself as he returned to Berlin: "Is it my Catholic duty to proclaim myself Dictator...
Cooper moved to Westchester County so :hat his wife could be near her family. At 30 he was a successful trader in whale oil and cotton. One day, reading aloud to his wife, he flung aside the book in disgust, said he could do better himself. What he began as a joke she persuaded him to finish; to his surprise his first novel (Precaution) was taken seriously. Almost before he knew it Cooper was a literary man. Soon he was hailed (though he later resented it) as the Walter Scott of the U. S. Though no gentleman signed his name...