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...find the true measure of Professor Babbitt. Grief, especially for an intellectual enemy, is likely to be brief, and the world of letters will not pause long to honor one who was heard but not heeded. With the loss of his penetrating criticism, there will undoubtedly be a new flow of shallow carping by the second-rate "genius" which has long been embarrassed by the dam of sound appraisal he so carefully built up. It may be that what he took for senile decadence in the political and literary life of world, especially of America, represents only the growing-pains...
...battles in the Civil War-all things learned in his boyhood. But recent events the banker could date only as before or after his son's death in an automobile accident. At every mention of that personal tragedy the banker "trembles strongly, his face gets red, the tears flow, he perspires and seems to lose control...
...during the War for the successful landing of troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Bland of countenance, monocle in eye, he (with Marshal Foch, General Weygand, Rear Admiral George Hope) presented the Armistice ultimatum to the Germans in 1918. After the War he formally received the German fleet at Scapa Flow...
...hands were folded over his paunch and his pale drawn face, with its puffy, unblinking eyes, was a mask of haughty indifference. Senators, exalted from their role of legislators to that of judges in a court from which there is no appeal, listened hour after hour to the flow of evidence, but could make no speeches. Now & then one of them would scribble a question on a bit of paper, send it up to the dais to be put to a witness. As presiding justice Vice President Garner monotonously ruled evidence in & out of the record. The atmosphere...
Chairman Morgan's assigned objectives are as follows: 1) flood control works along the Tennessee River to even up its flow between a March torrent and an October trickle; 2) a 9-ft. channel for navigation from Knoxville to Paducah (650 mi.); 3) reforestation of marginal lands to prevent soil erosion and to supply the next generation with a timber crop; 4) decentralization of industry so that Tennessee Valley residents may live on farms while working in factories; 5) manufacture of fertilizer; 6) production and distribution of cheap hydroelectric power. For these purposes the Tennessee Valley Authority is permitted...