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...time he went as a delegate to the 1888 Republican National Convention. In 1912 he became the G.O.P. vice-presidential candj-date and went down to defeat with Taft. In 1920 he made a bold bid for the Presidential nomination with the slogan: "Pick Nick for a Pic-Nic in November." He got only 69 votes...
There were a lot more: BAE, BLS, DPI, ECC, EHFA, EIB, FCIC, FDA, NIC, NPPC, OADR, OGF, OCR, OLLA, OSRD, SCS, SSB, SSS, USSS, USES, USIS. Hardly a man was now alive who knows or needs to know most of them. If he did, he could not find them. They were moving: REA was on its way to St. Louis, one of 14 peacetime bureaus which had moved or were moving to make more Washington room for war agencies. SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) is now in Philadelphia, the Patent Office in Richmond. To Kansas City will soon...
...Cain's three fascinations are the Laocoönic stranglings of sex, money (or its lack) and snobbery. His heroine, Mildred Pierce, finds herself entangled in all three. Divorced after eleven tame years of marriage, she finally manages to support her children through a pie-bakery. But little else in her life is quite as easy as pie. The first of her lovers, her husband's ex-partner, is only too ready to betray her when it means money to him. Her second, an insolvent playboy, blandly accepts her money, calls himself her gigolo, sneers over her with...
...Phillips, a founder of Dr. George Washington Crile's Cleveland Cl-nic, died rescuing victims of the Clinic's great fire three years...
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