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...intuitive flair for chemistry, as some men have a flair for chemistry, as some men have a flair for music or verse. He worked here and there in half a dozen scattered fields, but any feeling that he was dilettantish in any is not justified by the sober worth of more than a hundred scientific papers he has written. He has been interested in chemistry since he was fourteen. At fifteen, while in the Roxbury School, he was giving shows for the neighborhood boys, billing himself as "Young Edison" and charging admission. He turned water into wine, made smells...
There will be no such delay if French taxpayers have their way. Protests at the unbalanced budget poured into Paris from all quarters last week. The National Committee of Economic Understanding called upon all Paris shops to close for a half-day in protest. Wrote the sober Temps, even before the Chamber increased the deficit...
...noon came the first hint that the speech would not be another Nazioration but a sober declaration to the world of official German opinion of all parties. Adolf Hitler went into a huddle with none less than his ancient enemy, onetime Republican Chancellor Heinrich Brüning. There had also been a telegram from Benito Mussolini...
...brothers will testify that "Rufe" has shown those same qualities ever since. Quiet, retiring, the family scholar, he has kept on pulling the stroke oar, a sagely sober counselor and friend to his brothers. He cannot remember off-hand how many utilities companies he has headed. He was economic adviser to the U. S. experts who drafted his brother's "Dawes Plan," assistant to Owen D. Young when Mr. Young was Agent General of Reparations. Sir Josiah Stamp has called him one of the U. S.'s greatest economists. Yet until he took the Chicago Fair...
Hearst has seen the journalism he perfected surpassed in profits even by such sober journalism as that of the New York Times. He has seen that Democracy in politics which he championed, suddenly altered to a dictatorship even more absolute than the one that made him attack Woodrow Wilson. In the internationalism which he has always shunned-to the point of being called pro-German during the War-he now sees his country taking the lead. Five years or so ago it was the fashion to regard Hearst as a "failure" and a "tragic figure"-but though he may need...