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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more present in his younger son. Brother Phil is the artist, Brother Bob the scientist, of politico-social activity. Both are intense, but in Brother Phil the intensity is more apparent. He is less facile at repartee, which Young Bob turns off almost automatically. When they were children, their oldest sister, Fola LaFollette, found small Robert sitting gloomily on the porch. She asked what the trouble was. He explained that Philip and the other sister, Mary, had found a little dead bird and were having a funeral for it. He had been crying because "they wouldn't let me come...
...British and French Governments concluded their naval agreement according to the oldest formulas of secret diplomacy. Neither parliament nor public was informed, and probably not even all the members of the governments...
However, let me tell you why I joined the Corps in preference to being a Harvard man. First, there is pride of profession. We are proud of the fact that our profession is one of the oldest and the noblest of all. We are proud of the fact that our career is one that deals with the building of men. In the army, men are taken from all parts of the country, from all walks of life. They come largely from the drift, mostly in the raw. From this material of flesh and blood, we build an organization that must...
...rivals. Checker cabs, a fierce, fantastic warfare. The cause of the war was of course to be found in business and labor rivalries. The Yellow cabs belong to the Yellow Cab Co., of which Mr. Hertz is president; it employs drivers, giving them a percentage of their cab earnings. Oldest in Chicago, it has the best and most numerous stands. The Checker Cab Co. is newer, has poorer stands; it leases its machines to drivers, who are unionized (Chicago Yellow drivers are not); the drivers must prowl around Chicago for fares. Checker drivers as individuals have fought the Yellow drivers...
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the United States Supreme Court, a graduate of Harvard in the Class of 1861, is now the oldest man who has ever sat on the bench of this highest tribunal of the nation. At eighty-seven years of age he passes the record of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, his ability to see the whole as well as the minutiae of legal disputes undimmed by the years. Many lawyers have found in him a new keenness of attack, born since he left behind the retiring age of seventy. He has never been a didacticist...