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...exceedingly slow and ponderous speech masking deep, deliberate mental operations, Mr. Washburn (Cornell '89) began his career as a U. S. consul at Magdeburg. Germany. Then he became secretary to the late, great Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. From this he passed through two U. S. appointeeships to a well-paid legal practice in New York. He was ready (like John North Willys whom President Hoover has just sent to Poland) to retire from money-making when President Harding sent him to Austria...
...forgotten, matured among blotchy maids and tall sardonic valets. . . ." At 14 Chéri fled from boarding school restraint, at 18 he was a miniature old man with black circles under his eyes, "a fussy little property owner with his nose in everything"?needlessly, for his mother was a well-paid harlot...
They had to collect the money, assemble the food supplies and distribute the food to inaccessible regions where camels, buffalo and coolieback were the only possible means of transportation. Beside their gigantic task, Hoover's Food Distributing job was simply a well-paid outing. And they did their work without any front page headlines or political ballyhoo. 'l think Herbert Hoover and Sinclair Lewis the two most overrated, overadvertised and disappointing men in American public life today...
...American Locomotive Co. at Pittsburgh needed a works manager. The Great Western's superintendent of motive power, well-paid though he was, concluded that, without executive experience, a mechanical man can get just so far and no further in railroading. Moreover, building engines for sale interested him more than buying engines and keeping them running until they died of old age. He took the Pittsburgh job, at a big drop in salary. The salary did not stay down long...
...foreign observers, the immediate intentions of Pied Piper Maniu seemed to have been realized at this point. He had not urged his docile horde to do anything. He dared not, because upon the rooftops of Alba Julia were planted machine guns, and quietly massed at strategic points were well-paid troops apparently loyal to the Bratiano regime. In these circumstances, Dr. Maniu told his peasants to wait a bit in Alba Julia and himself sped to Bucharest where he presented their resolution to the Regency.* The regents refused to request Premier Vintila Bratiano's resignation, but agreed to permit...