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Phrases and concepts were borrowed from all over. The old League of Nations preamble was there with "international peace and security." The Kellogg Pact had its echoes. There were Lincoln's "scourge of war" and Pope Leo XIII's "dignity of man." And there were fainter, but recognizable, traces of the Kuomintang party platform and of the Soviet Constitution...
...full regalia with all his stripes and complete allowance of brass fully displayed. Felix Locke reputedly spent the afternoon on the docks, looking for a little salt spray on his uniform no doubt, while others, following Lt. Beckham's subtle advice, got their saltiness directly from Cowie Hall. "Pop" Kellogg was walking down the street with a copy of Navy Regs in hand, memorizing that article on saluting in case any unwary Apprentice Seaman or above should cross his path without due formalities; at last reports, he was having quite a bit of difficulty down around Boston Common...
...passed up Herbert Hoover, just elected President, because that year was the businessman's year and Walter P. Chrysler was his symbol. When Business crashed in 1929 we passed by Hoover again, skipped over Explorer Byrd and Peace-Pacter Kellogg in favor of Owen D. Young, back from Paris with his plan for settling Europe's troubles under...
...Isolationist? "My opponent says that the heavy hand of isolationism governed our country in the 1920s. Does he mean to apply that term to the three great Republican Secretaries of State: Charles Evans Hughes, Frank B. Kellogg and Henry L. Stimson, his own present Secretary of War? If so, I am afraid he has a very convenient memory...
...sorts; no camera has ever been made with lenses sensitive enough to capture the fine lines on a bill without so running them together that they look broken and blurred. Asked what sort of artist might have done the ration-stamp job, Keystone Photo-Engraving's J. S. Kellogg figured he must be what is known as a "label artist," an oldtime lithographer or a steel engraver. Mr. Kellogg also accorded the retiring genius a craftsman's accolade. The man who made his all-but-perfect copy 90 times over, said Mr. Kellogg, "is some...