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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presence of women he would often lose his simple forthright manner and turn himself into a pompous and mouthy sentimentalist-or else remain spellbound and silent...
...other words, Colonel George Brinton McClellan Harvey had done a tiny piece of business. He had sold the North American Review, a magazine often found in libraries, to a corporation lawyer named Walter Butler Mahony, brother-in-law of President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia, for a sum that he refused to state.* And why did Colonel George Harvey sell his magazine? Because he is going to write the biography of Henry Clay Frick...
Gambling was an aspect of Frick's adventuresomeness. He speculated in stocks and boldly used his inside, forehanded knowledge culled from directors' meetings in which he sat. At early meetings of U. S. Steel Corp. directors, Judge Gary, Methodist, often caught Frick matching $20 gold pieces with fellow directors-Henry H. Rogers, N. B. Ream, P. A. B. Widener. The Judge made them stop their games...
...best recent examples of "that cruel maldevelopment." Childhood's innocence is not scorned. The doctor appraises it warmly in the writings of A. A Milne, Henry James, James Barrie, Daisy Ashford, Nathalia Crane. His sterner brief is simply against those qualities in children which, smothering innocence, are most often carried beyond puberty-meanness, stupidity, intolerance...
Nevertheless these figures exist and a very definite evolution of modern society they are. Their roots often strike back to early days of the U. S., as in the case of Lewis Latham Clarke, president of the American Exchange-Pacific National and executive committee chairman of the new Irving Trust combine. His ancestors were governors of Rhode Island, including that colony's founder Roger Williams. The ancestors of Harry E. Ward, President-Elect of the combine, reached Massachusetts...