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...uncertain. It is time for the intelligentsia to realize its responsibilities. Civilization must be left to its own devices no longer. It is up to Phi Beta Kappa men to recognize their Key as the wise man's burden, which is altogether too ponderous to dangle from a mere watchchain, and altogether too potent to have no other...
President Whitney, precise in dress and address, confronted the Senators coolly. On his watchchain they could perceive a small gold animal charm which was neither a bull nor a bear, but a pig.* He could perceive that the committee's special attorney, aggressive Claude Raymond Branch of Providence, was irritating to the Senators; that Chairman Norbeck of South Dakota was impatient, Senator Glass of Virginia sarcastic, Iowa's Smith Wildman Brookhart belligerent...
...bare, brownish room. Piles of pamphlets lie on the floor. At one end is a table desk. Behind it sits a slight, stoop-shouldered, mild man with heavy grey mustaches and a bush of grey hair, through which he has a habit of running his fingers. A gold watchchain is twisted through a buttonhole of his dark vest, and dangles a little compass at its end. His collar stands out from his spare neck...
...Stick at the meat trusts, the steel trusts, the oil trusts, every newspaper in the land published a picture of a Trust so that people would know one when they saw it. A Trust, cartoonists made clear, was a bloated figure with a pork barrel body, huge watchchain (labeled "Profits"), smoking with incredibly gross lips a big cigar (labeled "Luxury"), and crushing beneath its heel a pathetic lizard-sized person (labeled "Consumer"). Since 1905, that figure has appeared more and more rarely, but last week he suffered a recrudescence. He was called "Flower Trust." U. S. Attorney Buckner of Southern...
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