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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...
...political smut committees and damned demagogy down there at the corporation but we're doing a business job and, damn it, we intend to continue doing it. If we make any mistakes wait until the return of better times and then, if you want to, give us hell individually. . . ." Charles Gates Dawes is credited with being the shrewdest exponent of studied indiscretion since Theodore Roosevelt. Political observers were stirred by his sudden, profanely popular outburst about the "masses"-not as an object for specific relief (Candidate Roosevelt's thesis) but as a national barometer more important than Wall...
...Lullaby. But they said, 'You mustn't shoot any dead bodies in the picture.' Then I tackled-Dreiser's An American Tragedy. . . . The script I made for it had Dreiser's approval. . . . Hollywood wanted just a police story, so I said, 'Why the hell pay Dreiser? Just get some clippings...
...Newsprint is the feminine element in the pressroom. It is never alike twice. . . . There must be a kindly discipline exerted over it. ... When a sheet of newsprint breaks in the press it raises hell, just like a woman getting hysterical...
...There was a man who built a house upon the sand. And the rains descended and the floods came and the winds blew and beat upon that house and it is still there, and will be till Hell freezes over; because the man that built it had brains enough to know what he was doing. Costs too much to build a house upon a rock...