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...family helped him get away. Joe went West, joined the gold rush to the Black Hills. He had so many irons in the fire he was always hoping one would get hot, but it never did. Meanwhile his favorite sister Catherine died, Anne and Hortense married failures, Aaron got greyer and stingier. Joe's bitterest pill was to watch his youngest brother David, a hypocritical prig, become the only financial success in the family. Joe's letters home were optimistic to the last, but long before the end he found himself a settled failure, saddled with a virago...
...Looking greyer, gaunter, grimmer than ever, Utah's 70-year-old Senator Reed Smoot arose behind his paper-cluttered aisle desk last week to perform an important function. Bracing his drooping shoulders as if to bear an invisible load, he announced: "Mr. President, from the Committee on Finance I report back favorably with amendments the bill (H. R. 10236) to provide revenue, equalize taxation and for other purposes...
Less partisan observers found public sentiment more favorable to President Hoover than it was a year ago, attributed it to popular approval of recent Hoover-sponsored measures against Depression, popular disapproval of malicious attacks on the President by political enemies. Physically the President appeared a little greyer, a little more serious of mien than he was at the two-year mark but in excellent health...
This year loyal Republicans will vote for a presidential nominee who has aged 20 years since they first voted for him in 1928. The White House has left its scars of service on the President. His hair is greyer. His shoulders seem to droop in discouragement. The lines about his eyes have cut in deeper and those about his mouth have hardened. The round baby-pink face of the 1920's has grown firmer, more mature. Washington has been as cruel to him as to any President in history. And yet somehow, for all the heartbreak that has been...