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...identify each Senator by the sound of his voice. Appalling to some is the mere thought of the number of Senatorial voices, otherwise forgotten, which Reporter Shuey may recollect in his dreams. Even in waking moments, he recalls the ponderous thunder of Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, the swift clipped words of James Paul Clarke of Arkansas "who could touch 210 a minute," the bitter snarl of Marion Butler of North Carolina...
...from the chairmanship of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. He had defended Francis G. Caffey, receiver for the New York & Cuba Steamship Co. Other clients whose cases he carried to the Supreme Court: Victor Talking Machine Co., Beechnut Packing Co., Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co., Aetna Insurance Co., Swift & Co., De Forest Radio, U. S. Industrial Chemical Co.. Anaconda Copper Mining Co., Wabash R. R., General Electric Co. When his son Charles Evans Hughes Jr. became Solicitor General of the U. S. last year, Mr. Hughes Sr. dropped all cases in which the U. S. was his opponent...
...Says our own Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain): "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." And from the famed nursery tale, Gulliver's Travels, by Dean Jonathan Swift: "I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives [mankind] to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth...
Then an assistant tripped over a temporary wire connecting a motor generator and a rectifier panel. The wire broke. Swift inspection determined it would take several minutes to repair the break; unless it were repaired nothing could be broadcast...
...summer, swift motorboats cleave both Manhattan's broad grey Hudson River and narrow, oily East River. But unusual is the sight that Manhattanites had last week-a tarpaulin-covered motorboat left all night on a truck at a Park Avenue corner. Many another night and all day many another glistening, rivet-new motorboat was being carted through the streets. Gapers who followed these land-hauled boats found they were bound for Grand Central Palace, there to bask in blue and silver brilliance for the 25th (Silver Anniversary) New York Motorboat Show...