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...accounts to a comptroller or to submit to his investigation of their demands for appropriations. Hence it is understandable that the first comptroller of the budget needed to be a fighting man with no tender feelings on the subject. President Harding evidently bore this in mind when he appointed "Hell and Maria" Dawes...
Brigadier General Dawes is one man certainly in a position to make remarks about Congress and politicians, even if one doubts his perfect impartiality in the matter. Always the champion of frank speech, "Hell and Maria" severely arraigned the cowardice of Congress in a recent speech in New York: "Men are in office who would barter the interests of their country in order to stay in office, and if there is any organized opposition they run. Look at the way they ran before the organized minorities of the soldier bonus bloc, the labor bloc, the maternity bloc, the good roads...
...book, and each other. There is not even the jauntiness that at least justified Fitzgerald's earlier works; he has fed his muse on modern highballs--and now she has the headache. We can see in the "Tales" nothing but a hodge--bodge of spillways to a very trite hell...
...presumably, did not read further. Subsequent readers often waste much time in trying to decipher the pencilled comments. Even if all the witticisms were of the order of those mentioned above, there might be some excuse; but the average comment, and the most frequent one, is "to Hell with Yale". The sentiment is undoubtedly patriotic and shows that all this talk about "Harvard indifference" is greatly exaggerated. But it might be suggested that the college patriots of the marginal note express their overflow of feeling in some more effective...
Thus we have lived into the Senior year when the very incautious and some-what unfamiliar cry of "Hell, I've got to do some work" is often heard. Frank as it is, it connotes the arrival of a mentality...