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...Senator Charley Squires of Mishawauka, the story's 59-year-old hero, had a private law practice in Washington which netted him $60,000 a year. He lived in a Tudor house, had a nice nestegg in a London bank, stood in well with his party's national committee, had built up good-will by planting the right people in every bureau and department in the Capital. A widower for many years, he let friendly rich widows assist with the social side of his career. At home he was pampered by his beautiful 27-year-old daughter Darnell...
...rise and hoped for help from Europe. The first months of the war were encouraging, but then the weight of numbers began to tell. Just before the British took Pretoria, the Transvaal capital. State Attorney Smut? robbed a bank of its Government funds, sent them off to safety. That nestegg of a half-million pounds kept the Boers going two years more, against England's outlay...
Sirs: Your article anent Insull in the May 14 issue left me with the following impression: Bighearted, genial Sam Insull was a true friend of the peepul. He had saved up a little nestegg of $100,000,000 out of his earnings as a secretary to Edison and felt reasonably well-fortified against a rainy day. He disliked money and hoped he never made another nickel, But he was continually hounded by common folk insisting that he take their savings to invest. Sam didn't want to do it. He had planned on putting his own money into some...
Sponsors of the White House nestegg confidently predicted that, once hatched, it would and could put 6,000,000 jobless to work in half a year...
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