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John D. Rockefeller made his pile in oil, Andrew Carnegie in steel, but William A. Clarke, III, '51, has started his race in the traditional American derby for greenbacks with a prospering business of merchandising milk and doughnuts to esurient Yardlings.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Milk-Doughnut Tycoon Clark Is Self-Made Man | 12/11/1947 | See Source »

"This mouthy, pretentious, calculating little climber . . . this degraded knave . . . this glib, vulgar, slippery little jackleg . . . that posturing sometime reformer . . . the twenty-two goats and monkeys who composed the grand jury . . . this blank-brained menagerie, bamboozled by transparent obfuscations ... the gang of sneaking child-cheaters . . . these two low, skulking rogues . . . and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Knight Out | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

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