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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been found. Not only is he an astute politician, and the political importance of the Reichsbank in Germany is very great, but he is one of the foremost economists in the country. Shaven-headed, thick-necked, he bears a distinct resemblance to the late great Gustav Stresemann whose friend and disciple he was. More important, he is one of the most intimate personal friends of President von Hindenburg. Born in Berlin in 1879, Bankpresident Luther proudly claims descent from the patron saint of Protestantism, grim-jawed Martin Luther...
When the prim Dutch maid opens the door and sees that a friend of the family is calling she returns the cent to the welcome guest. But if she finds on the doorstep a peddler, huckster, bill collector or offensive person of any sort she merely slams the portal and the cent is velvet...
...sandals on his large pale feet, a huge rosary of polished granite beads in his lifeless fingers. The Marquesa de Arguilles and Senorita Mercedes de Castellanos, two ladies whose intimacy with Don Primo had caused many a scurrilous press clipping, came early in the afternoon, gazed sadly at their friend in one costume they had never seen him wear, the habit of a lay brother of the Carmelite monks...
...employers in this cold world mistreating and underpaying their help. We expected to see medieval niggardliness and harshness in many backward places, but we did not expect to find miserliness advocated by Harvard. It is like discovering Einstein to be thousands of years out of date, or our best friend to be a despicable thief. The disillusion hurts. Tilford E. Dudley...
...American Mercury when he comes (at least once a month) to Manhattan. He worked as reporter on various Baltimore newspapers, became editor of The Smart Set (1914-23) with Critic George Jean Nathan; of The American Mercury (1924). Said Nathan of Mencken: "I respect him, and am his friend, because he is one of the very few Americans I know who is entirely free of cheapness, toadyism and hypocrisy. . . . He is the best fighter I have ever met. And he is the fairest, the cleanest, and the most relentless." Delighting to shock, Iconoclast Mencken was once shocked himself: by Author...