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...telegram from his father-in-law, the late Senator Warren of Wyoming, asking if he knew French. Son-in-law Pershing wired back the "comparatively accurate" response that he once knew and spoke the language and could easily "reacquire" it. Not for days after he reached Washington did it dawn on him that he was being made, not a divisional commander, but chief of the whole...
Very early New Year's morning Charles P. Ruby, railroad trainman, arose in his Washington home. He hurried to the gates of the White House. There, before dawn, he sat down on a box, began a long wait. Later another man, Arthur Demars, jobless insurance agent, came along, stood up behind Ruby. It was very cold. A White House guard came and asked what they were doing...
...prefer relief in the form of public works which substantially increase the efficiency of our national economic equip ment. The dole tends the workers to idleness." Prosperity: "I am confident that the peace of the world will be preserved, and that before long a new era of prosperity will dawn; and in this assurance I bid goodby to those who have listened to my message, and beg to present my cordial regards to the President of your great republic...
Should citizens of the West become West-conscious (as Vancouver seems to have become), should they sink their rival ries and go as a unit to the rescue of the East, a new commercial era of unimaginable splendor would unquestionably dawn - unless the East should refuse to cooperate...
...those who are interested in history and the progress of the human race. Rather than being written in the pages of lengthy volumes, a tale of history is here told in finely worked precious metal and gems explaining more tersely and no less clearly how the people in the dawn of civilization speculated on the phenomena of nature. One does not need to be a Keats before a Grecian Urn to learn from these foster-children "of silence and slow time" the lessons which are still fresh from antiquity. The Greek civilization seems old, but the Chaldean revelations...