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...This system of government presupposes one important and indispensable thing???a tremendous interest of the people in the vote and government. But the people have not supplied this, which is the principal ingredient. This often has resulted in crooks and thugs being elected to executive offices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: System Flayed | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

Next day the operators' scale committee rejected Governor Pinchot's proposed Board of Investigation and Award, on the ground that it "has power to do but one thing???increase wages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Definite Proposals | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

...will be a mean line in that racy American language he knows so well. . . . You can depend on one thing???the letters will be crammed full of speed, zip, pep and go! A guy who could write a song out of a flock of bugle calls and help win a war will write some letter?the kind that will make you shout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cohan | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

...just called him on the telephone to see what his next novel would be like. " I don't know," he answered. ' Only one thing???it's going to be exceedingly long! " Which, after all, is a perfectly safe plan for a novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stephen Vincent Benet He Carries About Gum, Candy, Some Books | 10/1/1923 | See Source »

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