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...SPLENDID YOUR ACCOUNT OF NEW YORK CITY POLITICAL SITUATION [TIME OCT. 23] BEST I HAVE READ EX-SENATOR EDWARD J AHEARN HAS NOT ALONE YOUTH AND VITALITY BUT COUPLED WITH SHREWD POLITICAL ACUMEN TO RESURRECT AND) REHABILITATE TAMMANY HE WAS BORN AND BRED INTO POLITICS...
...much of his music, for the peasantlike economy with which he used the same themes over and over again, elaborating on them with the imagination of a genius. Brahms never married, never defied convention as did the overromanticized Rich ard Wagner. But he was no ascetic. His mother bred in him an Oedipus complex which never quite squared with the notion of women that he got while playing the piano as a boy in the red-light district of Hamburg. Brahms patronized brothels all his life, a fact never before printed. He loved several women...
...cowpunchers envy college men sometimes, and I 'spect they often wish they could ride like we do. Probably some of our boys would look right awkward in evenin' clothes, but if you want to see a real pretty sight you ought to watch a few of these college bred fellahs tryin' to set a cowpony. Back where we come from, the boys don't git much chance for an edication, although some of the fellahs ridin' tonight have graduated from big colleges. You eastern boys don't get the same chance to build up your bodies and practical judgment...
...direct as a compass, as decisive and brief as a dictionary definition, and as poised, as gracious and friendly as all well-bred women is Frances Perkins, the woman selected by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to represent labor in his official family...
...training was hardly done in the best schools at all. His knowledge of finance lead him to detach himself quickly from Berlin Police nets with the $700,000 he procured mysteriously by his great talents. But he is back in Germany now, as Isaak Lewin, Berlin-born and bred. This is all very cruel to dig up again, but Normano was a great economist, and we are still sorely puzzled. And we pity Professor Haring...