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...also a provincial lawyer, cranky and crude, unable to develop his ideas systematically. Consequently when he came to write his own biography in 1888, he leaned on a young collaborator named Jesse Weik to put it into publishable shape. The book contained enough of Herndon's insight and first-hand knowledge to make it a masterly record, but Weik picked and chose over Herndon's materials as he saw fit; the publishers revised the manuscript, and 70-year-old Herndon got only $300 for his share of the work and for his collection of Lincoln documents that afterwards...
...series of new committees were organized to help the student get some practical, first-hand informative of unemployment, public health, cooperatives, and the work of Boston peace organizations...
With all the first-hand advice he has recently received from within and without the Administration, President Roosevelt has yet to decide what to do about Recession. Last week, however, he decided what not to do about it. And what he decided was not far different from what Herbert Hoover decided eight years ago when another Depression was getting under way: he made a statement against reducing wages...
Most ironical comment on Professor Burgess' effort to eliminate the gamble from marriage had been supplied by the professor himself. Two years ago, after a first-hand study of gambling in Chicago dives, Professor Burgess recommended that gambling be legalized, declared: "Gambling is inherent in human nature and cannot effectively be suppressed...
...pack remained a mystery. Piecing the story together from these documents and unpublished writings of other members of the crew, Commander Ellsberg (On the Bottom) has tried to make its terrors more oppressive by the device of having it told by Chief Engineer Melville as a first-hand observer. Not altogether successful, the device enables Commander Ellsberg to put hackneyed remarks in the mouths of the characters that rob the book of authority without making its people seem any more real. Not by means of stale jokes cracked by the doomed, but by the simple facts of their plight...