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...Plaza, overflowing this time with a peaceful 10,000. He, at least, had changed since defeat: he spoke with a personal "I," not the old imperial "We." Pleased but a little bewildered by the "Banzai!" that reverberated from his palace walls, the tiny, spectacled man in the silk topper spoke humbly to his subjects. "Let us thoroughly embrace the tenets of democracy and keep faith with other nations," he pleaded. "Let us solidify the foundations of our state...
Starting with the Babylonian Talmud (c. 450) right down to Booth Tarkington (Princeton '08) "Clothes make the man" has been a popular saying on the importance of what one wears. "We are all Adam's children, but silk makes the difference" contended Thomas Fuller...
Newbold Morris, an irrepressible reformer from the ranks of Manhattan's silk-stocking Republicans, tripped down to Washington last February, all aglow. On the invitation of the Administration, he was going to investigate corruption in the Administration. Last week, as Morris and his bumptious crusade came to a crashing end, it could not be said that the outcome was really a surprise to those who knew Newbold Morris and the chiefs of the Administration. But it was a spectacle, part political farce and part national humiliation, that Washington would remember. Morris launched his inquiry in his own inimitable style...
...year, a man with five children winds up with $10,500 after he pays his federal income tax. Normally, that would be hardly enough to send the children to expensive schools, maintain two homes, gamble extravagantly and buy such fancy items as $20 pajamas, $47.50 cuff links and $31.50 silk shirts. In fact, most men with five kids consider themselves lucky, even with a $12,000 salary, to be able to buy any shirts...
...questioned about American race problems, "do not read Uncle Tom's Cabin and believe it represents the United States today." Indian Statesman Sir Benegal Rau spoke of her as a U.S. phenomenon comparable to Niagara Falls. In Bombay an admiring Indian textile worker spread ice yards of silk in her path up a tenement district stairway. She went right on being Mrs. Roosevelt. She "performed namas-kar" repeatedly, once giving some wealthy hosts the jim jams by using it to salute the footmen at dinner. She crept into native mud huts, worked an ancient spinning wheel in New Delhi...