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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Again, Senator Fess represents the highest political and moral ideals but pray inform us, if you can, what TIME represents...
...prone to exalt him as a Galahad of the masses, dight in spotless, and stripeless, armor. Actually, of course, he is simply a 54-year-old up-from-the-bottom man whose profession has been politics, whose acquired technique is state-government, whose ambition is what he calls "the highest office in the world." In acquiring his technique he found that knowledge of his job was necessary to rise in his profession and that honesty was an unbeatable asset after rising. In contemplating his ambition he has perceived that a public man can no longer personally manipulate a great destiny...
...brought by Josef Israëls' pretty painting, Her Treasure. Rembrandt's portrait of the Marquis d'Andelot putting on his armor went to the John Levy Galleries for $86,000; A Young Cavalier, by Frans Hals went for one thousand less. The second highest price of the evening was the $90,000 for which Frederick Bucher bought John Hoppner's cool and charming portrait, Mary Anne, Lady Dashwood-King...
...physicians, prefer scholars. He cited a survey made by his own firm, in which it was found that "men from the first tenth of their college classes [equivalent of Phi Beta Kappa rank] have four times the chance of those from the lowest third to stand in the highest tenth salary group." He concluded: "While I do not believe that success in life can be rated by income, I do believe that as between one man and another working in the same business organization, success and salary-while not the same thing-will, generally speaking, parallel each other...
...week. On the way he made a speech, saying: "In Washington they have all the dry members of Congress who make the laws and have legislative authority over the District of Columbia. They could mobilize very easily the greatest force of dry agents in the country. They have the highest administrative authority-the President of the United States-and yet Philadelphia is making a far greater effort than Washington to enforce prohibition...