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Sirs: . . . Harry Hopkins, U. S. Relief Administrator, by all means. For 19 months, he has had the most difficult, thankless, and yet the most important job in the U. S.?barring no one?that of feeding about 20 million U. S. men, women, children?and he's done a damn swell...
...this hopeful commotion last week in no way assured early resurrections for the lean ghosts of 1929. As all lawyers know, it is a long and thankless task to corral even two-thirds of any big company's creditors including bondholders. One of President Hoover's last acts was to sign a bankruptcy bill which was supposed to make it easy for railroads to scale down top-heavy funded debt. A dozen or more carriers have since plunged into bankruptcy under this law but not one has yet been able to climb...
...Maine is blown up, the band plays "Stars & Stripes Forever" and Chet goes off to the Spanish War in the blue pants and campaign hat of his militia company. Nine years later Chet loses his job and his insurance in the 1907 panic. He does not complain when his thankless, drunken brother-in-law leaves the little family flat for a discreditable marriage. Ten years later Chet and Eve's son, a promising youngster with artistic talent, goes off to his war. Eve is knitting an olive drab sweater behind a window with a service flag when the telegram...
Author Dickens took to fame like a duck to water, working harder than ever. One popular success followed another from his ready pen-Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop. No plodding cultivator of a thankless Muse, Dickens enjoyed not only the fruits of his work but the work itself. He described himself at work on Martin Chuz-zlewit: "In a bay-window in a one-pair sits, from nine o'clock to one. a gentleman with rather long hair and no neckcloth, who writes and grins, as if he thought he was very funny indeed...
...With bumble folk kneeling outside the Palace gate in freezing weather, a stream of princes, dignitaries and ambassadors began to roll in with congratulations at 7 a. m. First to arrive were Prince and Princess Chichibu. He, as the Emperor's eldest brother, has played for years the thankless role of heir presumptive. Relieved of this by the babe, brisk Chichibu and his beauteous Princess, who have had to remain childless lest they have a son before the Emperor, appeared radiant. For the Army spoke Lieut.-General Sadao Araki, War Minister and possible future Dictator of Japan. "The foundations...