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...committee, including a dozen boys, in charge of Boys' Week (April 27-May 3) called on the President to offer him its honorary Chairmanship. Said he: The boy is the father of the man. Remember that when you grow up you will be about the same kind of man as you were a boy. You don't need to rob yourself of boyhood, but you can take your pleasure in a manly way. I have two boys of my own. I tell them there are only two things necessary for boys-work hard and behave themselves. Do that...
James A. Reed, senior U. S. Senator from Missouri: "As I stood in the doorway of the Daugherty investigation committee room, a messenger boy trod on my toes. Said I: 'I'm tired of having you damn kids tramp on my toes!' Said the boy, just as hotly: "I'm no more of a damn kid than you are a damn...
There was a young lawyer in Washington Court House, named Harry M. Daugherty, and also his brother Mai S. Daugherty, a banker. There was a little boy, Jesse W. Smith, bereft of his close relatives. The two Daughertys took it upon themselves to give the boy an education and see to his start in life. A few years passed and the boy became owner of a store. Then, in 1908, the boy married. The marriage lasted only about a year and a half, and was followed, in due sequence, by a divorce. More time passed and Lawyer Daugherty...
...with Means. He was acquitted. Two years later he produced a will of Mrs. King which was declared a forgery. According to his testimony, he has been employed by the German, British, Mexican and U. S. Governments, besides individuals. His employment with the German Government took place under Captain Boy-Ed and Ambassador von Bernstorff before the U. S. entered the War, and for it he is reputed to have received $1,000 a week. In going before the Committee he waived immunity?as was necessary, because he is about to be tried in New York for bribery...
...certain sense that I have not fully understood. One of them said that I had an unsual amount of courage. That has never entered my mind. I confess to recognizing another quality to which President Lowell referred--a readiness for combat. I look back upon my life as a boy sometimes engaged in those rough and tumble fights which we used to have on Boston Common, and I recognized there at a tender age that I did display considerable enjoyment in fighting...