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...During my younger days in Wall Street I had contact with the older financiers and with the great railroad barons-the ferocious cigar-chewing men who drove back the frontier with every blow on an iron spike. Then years later I was in Washington during the most stirring period of the War; and after that I went to Paris and saw the statesmen of a dozen flags sew the map of Europe into something they hoped would stay together. . . . I've had a vivid life...
...Wisconsin in the September primary. His opponent would be Governor Walter Jodok Kohler, "stalwart'' (regular) Republican, plumbing fixture tycoon ("Kohler of Kohler''), candidate for a second term. Intense, eloquent, bushy-headed like his father, Brother Phil inaugurated his Progressive leadership by trying to drive a spike of corruption into the candidacy of Governor Kohler. Last year he signed a court complaint, helped to amass evidence, that Governor Kohler had grossly violated the Wisconsin Corrupt Practices Act by excessive campaign expenditures to secure the Republican nomination and election...
...self-made man from a hard school: Chicago's "back-of-the-yards" district. His hobby is breeding horses, and he has entered his Dick O'Hara in both the Kentucky and the American Derbies this year. In announcing that his group had gained control, Mr. Joyce spiked, or attempted to spike, all merger rumors by stating that he was interested in the Great Western purely as an investment. But there are persistent whispers of "Van Sweringens...
These are tales of the Potato Face Blind Man, who likes to spin yarns to little girls about moonlight, spiders, rats, elephants; of Yonder the Yinder, "a long spike of a boy with a burning bean for a head, and his eyes full of spears, spads and spitches;" about the man with long arms who held up the sky when it was falling but took his time about it. (Said he: "Hurry isn't for me. Hurry is no worry of mine.") The conversation is irrelevant and entertaining, the kind of children's cross questions and crooked answers...
...Gold Spike. To commemorate the laying of the world's longest stretch of ''heaviest rail" (130 pounds a yard) between Chicago and New York, Pennsylvania Railroad officials last fortnight observed an ancient custom and drove a gold spike in the last link. The ceremonies took place on the Pennsylvania main line tracks at Chicago's 41st Street. Chosen to drive the spike was Foreman...