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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Next evening the Mob marched to Eastland jail. They dragged Murderer Ratliff from his bunk, stripped him of his clothes, paraded him 200 yards through the main streets to a telegraph pole. A rope jerked Ratliff off the ground, broke, let him down with a thump. Under the code of the Old West, when a lynching rope broke, the victim was freed. Eastland that night did not follow the Old West's code. Fifteen terrible minutes passed before a new grass rope was produced. Up went Ratliff a second time...
Through night, another day, and far into the next night, the indomitable Father of Victory lived on. With groping motions he made clear, in his lucid moments, that he wished his hands?the famous Tiger claws, cased day and night in kitten-soft grey gloves?to be held by the two men who were perhaps his closest, dearest, most faithful friends, Albert, his valet, Francois, his chauffeur...
...blaze of hate in Clemenceau which nothing ever quenched. Bismarck, Wilhelm II, Stresemann?they were all anathema. "Stresemann was Bismarck's best pupil," growled the Tiger recently. "He has gotten everything for his country, while on our side everything has been abandoned. This will surely bring the next...
...late great John Pierpont Morgan once sat for his portrait. Because he sat impatiently, badly, the painter wanted a photograph to help him. Banker Morgan agreed to allow a photographer just two minutes for the job. The next day he arrived punctually to find Photographer Edward J. Steichen, 27, waiting for him. Mr. Steichen had been there for a half-hour studying lights and shades, posing the janitor of the building in the chair where Banker Morgan would sit. Briskly he shunted the sitter to his seat. Banker Morgan sat down, glared into the lens. Snap. One picture was taken...
When Photographer Steichen next saw Banker Morgan, he showed him prints of the two pictures. Banker Morgan liked the first, tense pose, ordered a dozen copies. The second, Photographer Steichen's favorite, showed the subject looming characteristically massive out of Rembrandtesque shadow. A trick of light made the chair arm look like a broad, naked knife in Banker Morgan's hand. Banker Morgan looked at this picture, tore it in shreds...