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...Irregular Republicans thus became the fulcrum of another Senate seesaw, and the tax fight changed from a question of total reduction to several questions, on what reductions shall be made...
...gold, has grown up in grey Wall Street about the New Year's Eve of the great House of Morgan. It is told that as the old year passes the Morgan partners assemble in the low chunky marble building which stands at Broad and Wall Streets, the solid fulcrum of the business world. They come to sit in quiet, awful council while Mr. Morgan apportions to each his share of the firm's profits for the previous year. Naturally the largesse of a Morgan is always large. To this partner several hundred thousand dollars; to that...
Military critics have been inclined to give credit to General von Ludendorff for the Tannenberg victory. Be that as it may, Hindenburg got public credit for the victories; his immense wooden statue in War-time Berlin was veritably the fulcrum post of German patriotism and his popularity dwarfed all the leaders of Germany...
...Congress is his day. It is for him to make history; for this year he rules Congress?rules it in the same way that, as the progressives say, one man rules the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision. With opposing weights almost evenly balanced he stands at the fulcrum of the teeter-totter, able to see-saw decisive power to either power. It is the supreme triumph, the acme of power, to which a man of La Follette's type, by character an eternal insurgent, can attain...
...China is drifting steadily toward the wretched and tragic goal of final destruction; but, like Turkey, she will take her revenge by being the fulcrum of an international rivalry as bitter as the stakes are large. America can arrest this deadly drift by encouragement of the Chinese toward the rehabilitation of their country. Trouble with China will surely lead to a fight with Japan...