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...died in 1915, an ungrateful Britain would have remembered him as an Internationalist who once called Germany his "spiritual home," as a public servant strongly suspected of disloyalty, closely akin to treachery...
Approachable, candid, he was a hero to many a cub reporter. He said: "I am a quasi-public servant. I have no more right to refuse an interview to a newspaperman than to a director of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad." To neither newspapermen nor directors did he refuse interviews on the day he took over the N. Y., N. H. & H. in an effort to reduce accidents, deficits. On that day the ringing of a telephone had interrupted his breakfast. And a terror-stricken voice had reported the wrecking of the Bar Harbor Express, the loss...
...Constitution so that the greatest shame which savage, ignorant brains could devise would be placed on the nation's most popular man. . . . The President of Poland is not permitted even to select his valet or his maid, much less his Ministers. No one would think of treating a servant in the infamous manner in which the Constitution handles the President...
Last week, the Pullman Porter, most famed servant in the U. S., started to go on strike. Then, at the last moment, he changed his mind, "for obvious reasons." But he said he would strike some other day, soon, if his grievances were not adjusted. He had been getting in a position to strike for at least three years...
...month later in Paris the bandit's servant presents Janey with a ring of "three great pinky globes of pearls"-souvenir d'amour. But a year later she tells her devoted Anglo-Saxon that what she had felt for di Bari had not been the real thing: she had only thought she was in love. But now. . . . So she gives the American her "glowing beauty . . . the liquid eyes, the satin red cheeks, the cap of loose curls," and a portly income...