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Nine grave gentlemen last week presented to the President and the public the product of some eleven weeks' deliberation. The nine, headed by Dwight W. Morrow, washed their hands of a troublesome job. They had done their duty and they were free. The President and the public could do what they liked about the report of the President's Air Inquiry Board, Summary...
...became Chief of Staff of the 77th Division. In 1921 he was made Director of Public Buildings and Grounds of the District of Columbia, a post which carried with it the duties of Chief Military Aide to the President. But he made so much of his job in the city that it became necessary to relieve him of his duties as "aide" at formal White House functions...
Fair Players With Brains Best For Job...
...miles of road with "asphalt topping" at 30 cents a square yard. The Attorney General believes that any good road contractor would have been glad to do this work for about 18 cents a square yard. In the first six months, the company did about half its job and was paid some $1,715,000. Its costs were $600,000 leaving about $1,115,000 profit...
...long as I have succeeded in arousing your interest, in stimulating your curiosity, in helping you while away a few dull hours in this dull existence of yours, in a word, if I have succeeded in amusing you I have fulfilled my mission as a good showman. My job is to amuse not to instruct. Nay, more. If I have succeeded in bringing laughter in your heart and strange wonder in your soul I have given you greater instruction than you could possibly get in your churches or your academies. For the secret of life is in its illusions...