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...member of Congress, and reads and answers every letter. Among the things he started were Calf Clubs and Pig Clubs. He put up money secured only by the personal notes of boys and girls. At the end of a year, the animals were sold and the youngsters pocketed a profit.* His success in reading the farmers' minds is attested by his political record. He failed in 1912 to be elected Governor of Kansas in the three-cornered fight of that year, but he was elected in 1914 and in 1916. In 1918 he was elected Senator by a large majority...
...manipulative surgery similar to his operation in Chicago 19 years before on Lolita Armour. He was world-famed for his technique; would do much good to some cripples; would attract medical and surgical students to his amphitheatre, students who might later attend his Viennese clinics to his legitimate profit as a teacher. But the press took him up; touted him throughout the land; raised fond hopes in hearts of cripples everywhere. These rushed to his free clinics. He was their Messiah. Back of his tired, wrinkled brow, back of his white beard and moustache, they saw only the kindly doctor...
...farm produce in which there is a surplus is sold at European prices. They say let a barrier be put up to maintain a high price in the domestic market, and take a loss if necessary on the surplus sold abroad. To this the Administration answers: If the farmers profit on their product, they will produce more; the surplus will grow larger until the loss on the surplus will eat up the domestic profit...
...second reason lies in the operation of this plan to give its promoters and bankers an enormous immediate profit...
...both the circulation and the advertising. The editor of the Register declares that not a single copy in two years has been sold to a graduate student. He predicts that a College Register could be on sale two weeks after the opening of college and show a substantial profit...