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...suffering heart-burns when his famous line was smashed. And in American political life things have come to such a pass that the old stock alibis are quite ineffective; but by replacing them with pleas of wholesale dyspepsia and accounts of the ravages of amnesia, American politicians may now employ a little scientific venisimilitude in order to stave off the disapproval of their constituents for another term...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LITTLE ACORNS | 5/23/1924 | See Source »

...Passed a resolution empowering the Committee investigating the Internal Revenue Bureau to employ special counsel and "other agents" desired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Legislative Week May 19, 1924 | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

Said the Governor: "Let me advise you. I remember in the grand days of my friend Roosevelt, of glorious memory, one Francis J. Heney who was capable of investigating anything and who never investigated in vain. You should employ this Heney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: An Insulted Herd | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

...express to people more interested than a bored roommate, the opinions he has formed as the result of his reading and study. In brief the system will bring to that large group concentrating in Modern Languages all the advantages now accruing to students in the other divisions that employ tutors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE YEAR | 4/2/1924 | See Source »

...almost seems foolish to outline the plot of such a well-known play, but some people forget easily, and some may have been touring Europe when this "Cohan show" came to Boston. The story centers about John Paul Bart, who is in the employ of Anton Huber, a tailor. Like all human beings and Horatio Alger heroes, he cherishes fond hopes of becoming a great man, and to further himself intellectually commits to memory many phrases of an unpublished work by Dr. Gustavus Sonntag, the finance of Mr. Huber's daughter, Tanya. Finally opportunity knocks at his door...

Author: By L. M. W., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/12/1924 | See Source »

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