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...Ludendorffists turned about and fixed the Diplomatic Gallery with a cold, calculating glare of insolence, shook their fists at the assembled diplomats. But nothing served to alter the cheerful mien of M. de Margerie, French Ambassador to .Germany. Pandemonium fit for a madhouse continued. In vain did the President rap his desk and tinkle his bell. Some minutes later he succeeded in reducing the noise to an excited drone and announced that the finals-vote on the Railroad Bill was 314 to 127. The Experts' Plan was virtually in effect...
Then the band would begin to play. The Secretaries would hastily compute totals. The Chairman's gavel would rap a few times, reverberating through the microphones. The band would break off abruptly or hurry through a few last bars...
...President had picked an opportune minute to rap the Senate, for the reputation of Francis J. Heney is unpleasant in several particulars. California papers were quick to retell the story of "San Francisco's reign of terror." A rich man, Adolph Spreckles, animated by vanity or patriotic zeal, employed the man years ago. Heney secured the confessions of a number of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco. Holding these confessions like blades of Damocles he "ruled" the city in accordance with the instructions of Client Spreckles. It became a "government by injunction." Tsar Spreckles, said the Los Angeles...
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...sorry to see the reviewers taking my book as propaganda. It wasn't intended for that. Propaganda on capitalism is the furtherest from my idea. It is an attempt to satirize these idealists who let their fanaticism carry them into the lunatic fringe. It is a rap, if you wish, at various so-called new thought movements; but, primarily, it was, for me, a technical problem. I tried to take the island that has been literary property for years, the island with its ideal Government, and give it a modern twist. I haven't even tried to be particularly original...