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...face of the doubtless urban designer of the new Communist symbol should be as red as the revolution's flag. His five-tined fork is inescapably a manure fork; a hay fork has only three tines...
Republican Internationalist. This is something that Republican isolationists have never understood. Henry Stimson belongs to the now almost forgotten tradition of Republican internationalists in which John Hay, Elihu Root, William Howard Taft and Charles Evans Hughes were his predecessors. A large part of his career was in the service of that tradition...
...rich, wavy-haired Wing Commander Whitney Willard Straight, 28, son of the late Major Willard D. Straight, unorthodox Morgan banker who founded and funded the New Republic. Wing Commander Straight is a grandson of the late traction tycoon William C. Whitney, cousin of Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney and John Hay ("Jock") Whitney...
...years ago when he was asked to cover an Illinois wolf hunt on an expense account of $10. His itemized list included such expenditures as: "To rent car Chicago to Springfield,1?; gas for same, 1?; oil for same, 5? (it was an oil eater); to rent horse, 1?; hay, 5 mills; to rent glasses to look at wolf, 1?." After worrying the subject for a while, Casey discovered he had spent only $9.90. He polished off the matter by adding: "Wolfbane: 10?." To remind the accounting department of the terrible time it had with that itemized record, he continues...
...traces of murder, such as poison, could not thus be destroyed. Kicker in the bill: everybody to be cremated must first be inspected by the local coroner. Fee: $10. Natural effect of such a bill was to arouse high hopes in Missouri coroners; to arouse opposition among cemetery operators. Hay charged: "My conclusion was that they [certain legislators] conspired to frame a plan through which they would receive money...