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When the President finally drove up to the White House with his daughter Anna and Louis McHenry Howe he did not return to the comfortable home which he had left. Before his departure he told the country that he had no fear that builders would erect "a replica of the Kremlin" on the White House grounds merely because he had given them authority to make modest alterations in the White House offices during his absence. When he returned there was nothing left standing save three of those offices' outer walls, and during his first night in the White House...
...silver will, after they have given it up, receive $100,000,000 in cash to spend or invest. This will have an inflationary effect like all the other hundreds of millions that the Government is paying shipyards to build battleships, farmers to reduce crops, laborers to erect public works, jobless to stay alive. So the nationalization of silver is inflationary but only a thimbleful in a big bucket of inflationary Government expenditures...
...goes to bed. When he talks about his work his deep-set blue eyes burn with an icy fire. He walks prodigious distances through the city streets. His most valued friends are the New York Public Library's somnolent pigeons. A life-long bachelor, Dr. Tesla is tall, spare, erect, parchment-skinned, beak-nosed. The mustache he once wore is gone...
...scholarship and conduct. At the end his class standing can be computed with an adding machine. Each academy releases to the Press a complete list of its graduating class, with ranking. West Point hands out its diplomas in that order. As Cadet Richardson of Gibson Island, Md., trim, erect, redhaired, marched forward his classmates jumped up, whooped, hallooed, tossed their caps in the air, heartily thwacked his back as he returned. He was, for the day, the scapegoat on whom all their sins were piled. They knew, too, that "Goat" Richardson had hung on for his commission iong after...
...another tall, bearded man, Robert Fulton Cutting, 82, potent industrialist and president of Cooper Union's Board of Trustees, uprose to warn the seniors to work hard and be modest. Then he started to hand out diplomas. Sixteen diplomas & handshakes were enough for Octogenarian Cutting. Another trustee, portly, erect, broad-mustached and 16 years his junior, stepped forward to take his place. The line of graduates surged up, rippled across the stage. The portly trustee pumped each well-scrubbed right hand, thrust a diploma into the left, grinned, murmured "Congratulations." Each presentation took four seconds. On & on they came...