Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from eleven Senators, from General Pershing and the late Luther Burbank, from Charles Dana Gibson and Chauncey Depew, from John Drew and J. Ramsay Mcdonald, from William Randolph Hearst and John Grier Hibben, from Colonels George Harvey and Edward M. House, from Sir Lionel Phillips and Masuki Otagawa (Japanese mine owner), from George Gordon Battle and Daniel Guggenheim, from Robert Herrick and Sol B. Joel, from Charles Beecher Warren and John J. McCarty. The list has almost no end, composed as it is of men in all walks of life?ambassadors, financiers, politicians, scientists, admirals, artists. And the names...
None of them at first will have paid much attention to the city of Butte straggling up the mountain sides, where by day mine mouths stare like blackened cataracts on the human eye, and by night lights glare coldly. In Butte there are good homes and business blocks. But for the most part the dwellings, chop houses, onetime honky-tonks, have a temporary air, a helter-skelter appearance derived perhaps from the mining camp tradition...
...some friend of mine in college came to me and said he wanted to go into politics, I would suggest first that he take a course at the law school and pass with and the understanding of political life, if they seek these pleasures in no his bar examinations. This would give him not only valuable training, but also an occupation when defeated, as he surely will be at times. I did not take a law course and am sorry...
...sometimes wrong. For it was only last Saturday that I was converted to Methodism by a lady who did so want me to get the "good things" at Harvard. And any religion which will help toward a cheap and sudden attainment of the "Good things" is immediately mine. Though at heart I remain a Baptist on the hard shell a Vermont Baptist deo volente...
Great Precedent. It was the case of Judge Archibald. Robert W.Archibald, an eminent, respected Associate Judge of the U.S. Commerce Court, was impeached on 13 articles, which charged that directly and indirectly he had profited by collusion with mine owners and railroad officials in cases before him. On Jan. 13, 1913, the Senate found him guilty on several articles, including the 13th, which was a general and inclusive charge of conduct unbefitting a Judge...