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...brother and attorney. Instead of Walsh alone, Walsh and Spencer now share the leading role of chief investigator. Daugherty : ¶ Following Mr. Daugherty's resignation from the Department of Justice, the investigating committee decided it would continue its job of making revelations. ¶ P. J. Van Vechten Olcott, Manhattan lawyer, testified that he had been approached and asked to furnish $10,000 to be appointed a Federal judge, and to pay $25,000 additional when the nomination was confirmed. He declared that no beneficiaries were named, except "the boys." ¶ A special agent of the Department of Justice testified...
John McHugh, President of the Mechanics and Metals National Bank, announced that New York's quota was oversubscribed. Ralph Van Vechten. President of the Continental and Commercial National Bank, announced that Chicago's quota was oversubscribed. The other cities followed, piling on their oversubscriptions. Money flowed. No official list of subscribers was given out, but it was understood that the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul had pledged $100,000; the Rock Island Lines, $100,000; J. P. Morgan and Co., $500,000; the National City Bank (Manhattan), $500,000; Kuhn, Loeb & Co., $250,000; Henry Ford...
...book is What Every Young Man Ought to Know. I fancy such things do not greatly worry Mr. Farnol. He takes the facts of life for granted and proceeds from that basis to write of the things which lead away from life. Only think what a book Carl Van Vechten or Floyd Dell might have written if either one of them had been, like Jeffery Farnol, a stagehand and a scene painter on Broadway for two years-or perhaps it would have cured them. At any rate, let us thank Heaven for the Jeffery Farnols, the Oppenheims, the Buchans...
...Vechten is a brilliant writer. Parts of Peter Whiffle, parts of The Blind Bow-Boy, more particularly certain portions of his essays exhibit rare qualities of humor and beauty. Yet his books lack body and form, even that body and form which the frothiest of literary efforts must have. When I think of Van Vechten and his work, I think immediately of an expert characterization of his own in describing the heroine, Campaspe, in The Blind Bow-Boy. " Her body," he writes, " is her chief mental pleasure...
...face of a healthy vanity which is spreading slowly through contemporary writing, he poses in gold tights and a cap and bells. I admire his courage and his independence; but I'd rather laugh my belly-laughter with Rabelais than titter and snicker over Carl Van Vechten...