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...hence worked with the Government when they thought its politicians "good," sulked when they considered them "bad." Marxists said the State was a purely class instrument-"good" politicians were only capitalist politicians wearing democratic rouge. The State, says Strachey, is like a revolver-bad in the hands of a robber, good in the hands of those repelling the robber...
...White House mystery was not entirely solved. After Robber Buckly had been arrested, $25 of missing funds suddenly reappeared...
...left-wing study of early U. S. capitalists, The Robber Barons (1934), Josephson wrote of men who "spoke little and did much"-Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Collis Huntington, Morgan, Rockefeller. In The Politicos he writes of men who did as little as possible and spoke all too much. For the period after the Civil War saw the flowering of the spellbinders, the men who, when trapped in some snide deal, escaped by waving the bloody shirt, denouncing Jeff Davis, pulling out all the stops in tearful eulogies to the Union dead...
When the cases were opened, the alarm rang, but that did not worry the robber or robbers, who took a number of Central American art pieces, including jade vessels and gold ornaments...
...latest story tells of Kip Caley, bank robber and desperado, who, while serving time for one of his jobs, suddenly decides to go straight. A fellow of huge frame and equally mighty enthusiasms, he turns over his new page with all the gusto of a Billy Sunday, joins prison Bible classes, uplifts fellow convicts. The reform of so notable a character attracts wide attention, and soon newspapers, hometown politicians, even a Senator join in a successful campaign for his release. Paroled, Kip Caley strides out into the world again, too happy in his freedom, too exalted by his recent conversion...