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Billions on Parade. The President's budget was based on confidence that this goal could be attained. (All budgets are based on some such assumption; a skeptic last week defined a budget as "Mr. Micawber masquerading as a certified public accountant.") The budget was a whopper for peacetime, calling...
Copperfield at 40. "Success," observed Nathaniel Hawthorne, from his vantage point as American consul in Liverpool, "makes an Englishman intolerable, [but] an Englishman in adversity is a very respectable character." When successful Charles Dickens looked back on the adversities of his childhood, he found them too painful to disclose even...
Millions of Americans know Caspar Milquetoast as well as they know Tom Sawyer and Andrew Jackson, better than they know George F. Babbitt, and any amount better than they know such world figures as Mr. Micawber and Don Quixote. They know him, in fact, almost as well as they know...
Barnaby Baxter is a five-year-old who has dreamed up a fairy godfather named Jackeen J. O'Malley. O'Malley's round figure is no taller than Barnaby's, is equipped with two small wings and a magic wand in the form of a fat...
In Wilkins Micawber language, the U.S. Government's position is now about this: Monthly income: 700 million dollars; monthly expenditures: 700 million dollars and one billion more; results: any man's guess.