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...down and the blood-red cardinal velvet curtains have been hung up, and they have taken the green top off of the President's desk and put a red one on that . . . some smooth-fingered Roman employee I am told has thought he would take time by the forelock...
...Charles, has said within the hearing of Mr. Sinclair: "Hang onto your money. Nobody respects anything else. . . ." "Harvard and State Street and Beacon Hill had taught him that attitude," adds Mr. Sinclair, who is an expert at qualitative analysis. And Max Keezor agreed, with a respectful pull at his forelock, "Aye, a little learning do be a dangerous thing...
...taken from him the forelock which once wandered down over his forehead. Gone is the drooping walrusness of his once black moustache. What is there to mark him from the obscurity out of which he came? To date, only that he?one of the greatest constitutional lawyers in the Senate, one of the most conscientious, careful-minded men?is the greatest discoverer of political mud in this generation. This will be all?unless Mr. Fall or Mr. Sinclair or Mr. Doheny goes to jail. If one of them serves a jail sentence, then that finely molded head of Senator Walsh...
...problem essentially involves merging the older Eastern lines, par- ticularly between Chicago and the North Atlantic seaboard, into a few systems. Last spring, the Van Sweringens took time by the forelock, and by adding to their original Nickel Plate holdings the Hocking Valley, Erie, C. & O. and Pere Marquette, created the new Nickel Plate system (TIME, July...
...Federal government may apply its regulative power to a new industry. it may in a manner direct the inevitable expansion of the radio industry into those channels best calculated to serve public interests if the patent-suits do succeed in forcing the government to seize time by the forelock their inauguration is not to be condemned...