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...were the Hearstpapers whose big-nosed publisher, predicting that Herbert Hoover could be elected President of any country but the U. S., declared "here and now for Calvin Coolidge for the next President of the U. S." Led as always by the great internationally- minded House of Morgan, the sagest bankers and economists of the land had long and quietly been pressing just some such scheme upon the White House only to be turned off with the excuse that the country would not stand for it. That President Hoover's plan received such popular approval perhaps surprised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Exquisite Sensation | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

...identity. Let him think that the variation means superior excellence on his side; be satisfied with knowing, yourself, that you have changed only to improve. Enough on this score. Your inborn qualities will either make or mar you here. No education, no counsel - even of the sagest - can help you. You must stand or fall on your own merits. The next grand division of the subject, where care and study are not only useful but even absolutely necessary, is closely connected with the question just discussed, but differs from it in one very important point. Then it was a question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVCIE. | 3/25/1881 | See Source »

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