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Vice Chairmen-Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, a shrewd local boss (not without aspersions on his political reputation); Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, industrious, patrician; Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, onetime (1025-27) Governor; onetime (1907-21) U. S. Representative Scott Ferris of Oklahoma, farmers' friend; Florence Gardiner Farley of Kansas, famed suffragette...
Vicomte Alain de Leche, France's young patrician poet, gave way to generalities about women before boarding the Majestic. German women . . . "wear too much glasses, are either Hausfraus or adventuresses." French women . . . "are too calculating." British women . . . "love sports too well, are developed only physically." American women . . . "are intoxicating, but oh! so intoxicated, I am shocked. I am disgusted. I shall never marry an American." But M. le Vicomte could be generous: "I liked Indians, cowboys, Charlie Chaplin...
...Pennsylvania did and that would decide matters. Discovering what Pennsylvania would do was like peeping up the chimney for Santa Claus. The figure whom the Hooverites first saw in the chimney, and whom a nettled press credited with being the real though surprising Santa Claus, was not the frosted patrician, the supposedly all-potent Secretary Mellon. It was sooty and corpulent William S. Vare, the Philadelphia boss whom the U. S. Senate has suspected of, and rejected for, corruption...
...Mellon suite conferences on drafting Coolidge continued to a negative conclusion. Next day, when Secretary Mellon endorsed Hoover at the Pennsylvania caucus and Boss Vare got a resolution passed alleging his right to a seat in the Senate,f newsmen snorted abusively that the Pittsburgh patrician's course had been dictated by the Philadelphia politician, that Secretary Mellon had been timid and vacillating, that his control of Pennsylvania was a myth, that Boss Vare was Boss indeed and that Hooverism had Boss Vare to thank for its deciding boost. As added evidence of the supremacy of Vare over Mellon...
...Mellon theories of economics and government are neither original in conception nor brilliant in exposition, yet there is a trait of the Mellon mentality which reflects again that fineness of breeding which people have sensed in the lean, grey, little patrician of the Treasury Department. It is in the grand manner intellectually not to worry, not to cross bridges before rivers are reached. This Andrew Mellon never does. To his ability to put off until tomorrow that which is not today's concern, his intimates attribute his unimpaired vigor at an age when most of his business contemporaries...