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...mild-mannered gentleman who served as such a polite watchdog of the nation's finances. (Mr. Morgenthau can never hope to achieve a like benignity; the poetry of yesterday has yielded to prose.) To be a broker was not at that time the equivalent of pauperism, nor were pent-houses merely points of departure for leaps to the pavement below...
...week General Dawes addressed 800 lunching Chicago businessmen on "The Coming Recovery in Durable Goods and the End of the Depression." On the wall were charts of the depressions of 1873 and 1893. These the onetime Vice President of the U. S. used to illustrate his contention that a pent-up demand for the products of heavy industry had in both cases burst forth precisely five years and six months after the first stockmarket crash. Barked the good General: "The demand for durable goods . . . in a Depression, while it always rises last, always rises fastest. Accordingly, I suggest that...
Behind Commissioner Valentine's flow of angry words surged the pent-up wrath of 31 years of police experience. He joined New York City's force at the bottom in 1903, suffered one Tammany slight and setback after another for his persistence in going after politically influential crooks. Big, grim, tough, rigidly honest, he got his chance when the LaGuardia reform administration took office...
...nasty accusations. One of those teams then tried to replace her rival with another for the ensuing year. Open hostility glowed warmly on both sides and plans were laid for that game of 1926. Undergraduates and older men alike girded their loins for battle. And then it broke. The pent-up fury of heated anger gave way to better judgment. Old friendships were forgotten, tradition cast aside. One spark it took to touch it off, and then all was open furor. The result could be but one, and that the obvious...
...delegation to General Johnson's office to demand her reinstatement. According to the union account, General Johnson broke the engagement with the delegation and demanded the conference be postponed whereas Leader Donovan demanded and got an immediate hearing. Result: Mrs. Luke was reinstated. Then the General's pent-up feelings overflowed in a flood of Johnsonese. Regardless of consequences he did what few people thought he would dare do, and dismissed Leader Donovan for being "inefficient, insubordinate and absent from duty without leave." Said the NRA union: "In order to build a case, Donovan's immediate superior...