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With not one of the 140 ships engaged lost and not one of the 35,900 officers and men scratched, the fleets returned to Pan ama for a post-mortem of their encounter. A final verdict had still to be rendered by Admiral Jehu Valentine Chase, Commander-in-Chief of all U. S. fleets, who, aboard the flagship Texas, umpired the war game with the assistance of a score of rear-admirals...
Most of the subcommittee's hearings so far have been a post-mortem of the stock crash and the part the Federal Reserve played?or failed to play?to avert catastrophe. From the financiers who passed before his committee Senator Glass, arch enemy of stock speculation, got little support for his bills to penalize speculators with a new tax and to restrict the Federal Reserve's loan policy...
...What, my gallant Marshal, . . . were you so afraid of my counterthrust? Or had it occurred to you that if, as was probable, I died before you, I should for ever have remained post mortem, under the weighty burden of your accusations? . . . Ah, Foch! Foch! . . . What a stain on your memory that you had to wait so many years to give vent to childish recriminations against me through the agency of another, who, whatever his merits, knew not the War as you and I lived...
...Life on the Mississippi" or "A Tramp Abroad" for his later and more travelsome years. Perhaps these unfortunates may be redeemed from the pulpit of Sever 11. But it is more likely that Professor Murdock will concern himself with the later years of Mark Twain's life, for post mortem critics have discovered the many bitter pills under his palatable coating of gentle wit. For Clemens was the first American to discover that Uncle Sam would swallow an unpleasant truth if sufficiently sugared. Will Rogers has followed somewhat haltingly in his train. Why not go back to the original...
...seems to Dr. Freeman that those people who are susceptible to the same mental upsets are susceptible to the same companionate bacterial or chemical griefs. The more certain this theory becomes, the closer it grows (after more post mortem studies) to a medical law, the better doctors can prognosticate and prevent disease...