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Damn it all, the business of an army is to win the war, not to quibble around with a lot of cheap buying! Hell-and-Maria, we weren't trying to keep a set of books over there! We were trying to win the war. The public reputation of Charles Gates Dawes for profane vehemence originated with this testimony of his, given Feb. 2, 1921 as the A. E. F.'s Chief of Procurement to a Congressional committee investigating War expenditures. A few months later this reputation further expanded when Mr. Dawes, as first Director of the Budget...
Chairman Porter retorted swiftly: "The city provides outdoor selling space for peddlers of meat, vegetables, pretzels, chestnuts and cheap jewelry. It is inconceivable that the city will do less for those who have devoted their lives to art than it does for the pushcart merchant. ... If they give us a chance we will put on a show that will be not only an attraction to New Yorkers but a new drawing card for the thousands who visit the city daily. . . . The show would contain some really fine things, not like the Independents' Exhibition...
...prominent living biographer. (Apologies to Mr. Philip Guedalla who, fortunately or unfortunately, has not been accorded notice equal to Mr. Maurois). The members of this trio had much in common: they were the leaders in the art of "modern biography" and together they stood far aloof from all their cheap, novelizing imitators. Mr. Maurois began writing biography much later than either of his late contemporaries and he probably owes much to both of them. But he has a purpose and a method all his own, both particularly suited to his temperament...
Sponsored by the Harvard Socialist Club, the organization booming Norman Thomas for President has secured Mr. Hapgood to speak on "Ph.D.'s for Sale Cheap." On Monday, May 9, Norman Thomas himself will address the club. Clarence Skinner, chairman of the Social Ethics committee at Tufts College, delivered the opening talk on April...
...week in Manhattan to this extent: the city was asked for a building permit, the building to house an unnamed opera company. The blueprints call for a structure which would seem to suit the new idea of a popularized Metropolitan. There will be fewer boxes, more orchestra seats, more cheap seats, more standing room. There will be elaborate broadcasting equipment, 52 seat phones for the deaf...