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...postmaster and politician in rough and tumble Oklahoma, Donald Richberg was the son of a successful lawyer with a good practice in Chicago. Son Richberg, as became his position in the world, went through the University of Chicago and Harvard Law School, entered his father's law office???and promptly became disgusted with the world around him. To him the discovery that large corporations play politics and get favors from local politicians was a terrible shock. He wrote a book, The Shadow Men. (In 1934 it would have been Forgotten Men.) When Theodore Roosevelt campaigned in 1912, Richberg went into...
...Post Office???Walter Folger Brown of Ohio...
...slouch in their red chairs. Veering away from his familiar subject, Senator Blease waved a red-bound book* in his hand and declared: "I have here a book to which I might call attention. This is a book I sent to Mr. Rover's [U. S. District Attorney] office???the dirtiest thing I have ever read. I saw a young lady reading it, by accident, and asked her what in the world she was doing reading it. She had not gotten far enough into it, thank God, to see the dirty part of it. On page 97 appears this...
...death chamber. He will not be crowned until 1928, since the period of mourning in the Imperial Household will be protracted one year after the Tenno's death. None the less Hirohito Tenno received last week the Privy Seal and various imitations of the sacred symbols of his office???the sword, the mirror and the beads?the originals of these treasures reposing in various shrines throughout Japan...
...Author. Archibald Marshall, son (since 1866) of a London business man, was first destined for his father's office???from which it appears that The Education of Anthony Dare may be remotely autobiographical. He broke away, launched into his present career, has written