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...widely believed to be absolutely lobby-and pressure-proof. One powerful lobbyist was so confident that a bill he wanted would pass the house that he showed up for the final action. Just before the vote, Gus unwound his 6 ft. 4, and drawled into the microphone: "Boys, this ain't such a good bill. ..." The lobbyist walked out, wringing his hands. The bill was voted down...
London's Financial Times gloomed, "soaking the rich again." But in fact Brit ain's first full peacetime budget, slanted slightly socialist, offered everybody a little something, sent industrial shares up a respectable 1% and Government securities to ten-year highs...
...Diplomat." Waving his arms, "Butch" LaGuardia warned the foreign delegates of something they might not know: that he is "no diplomat." Cried he: "Protocol is off. ... I want plows, not typewriters. . . . Ticker tape ain't spaghetti. ... I want fast-moving ships...
Shorn of this special nationalist fungus, geopolitics is a simple, sensible, and often obvious business, based on the plain truth that geography influences history. At Munich's Geopolitical Institute, Haushofer did much painstaking, genuinely scientific work. Almost directly derived from Brit ain's distinguished geographer, Sir Halford Mackinder, were his more significant theorems...
...Bank of America had $5,626,063,927 resources and $5,339,307,098 deposits, while National City Bank claimed only $5,434,372,600 resources and $5,143,422,244 deposits. ... In short, we ain't being Dushed down by anybody...