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...found that the hard luck story was the opening wedge. As soon as I told an ignorant worker that I had failed to make good as an insurance agent during the war and had been forced to try to earn a living with my hands, all his suspicions would disappear and he would immediately tell me a hard luck story either about himself or a friend, and would accept me as an equal. At times it rather humiliated me to find that I was so thoroughly and quickly classed as an ordinary 'low brow...
...countries is a basis upon which may be built a better and a more sympathetic political understanding. The people of South America through more intimate relations are gradually coming to know the United States. Their erroneous conceptions of our people and our political aims will undoubtedly, by such means, disappear...
...attitude of his former companion, M. Clemenceau, who is reported to have said that he was tired of the human race, and hoped in Egypt to find more congenial friends among the mummies. Certainly, if Premier Nitti advice were followed, many of our present difficulties would soon disappear. Life would be much easier if we could all recognize a joke when we saw it, even it were officially classed as an "international problem" or a "grave symptom of social upheaval." The worries of the General Public have reduced him to the pitiably bedraggled state in which he usually appears...
...country. There is no greater danger in the country than those political fakirs who are threatening our national existence. Let us bend every effort to keep alive that fine spirit of friendship and co-operation. So let us pull together and I think all these difficulties and problems will disappear easily and quickly
...duty of providing it, in recognizing its fundamental importance, and in having the community itself, and every man in it; according to his ability, provide the capital necessary to our life and well-being." Then "every man would be a capitalist and the war of class against class would disappear...