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In his speech before the Merchants Club of Boston on October 17 , Dawes called “ the taking of positive action against the present and prospective evils of the trusts one of the necessities of the hour . The question of the nature of ...
In his speech before the Merchants Club of Boston on October 17 , Dawes called “ the taking of positive action against the present and prospective evils of the trusts one of the necessities of the hour . The question of the nature of ...
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“ October 22 : Charles Deering called with his automobile to take me to Evanston . We had a strenuous ride - when the machine would go at all . It broke down at Washington and Monroe streets and there for half an hour we were surrounded ...
“ October 22 : Charles Deering called with his automobile to take me to Evanston . We had a strenuous ride - when the machine would go at all . It broke down at Washington and Monroe streets and there for half an hour we were surrounded ...
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“ Through Comptroller of the Currency Ridgely , whom I called long distance , I had Cortelyou on long distance from New York at midnight . He said he had practically exhausted his funds with the demands of New York banks , but would let ...
“ Through Comptroller of the Currency Ridgely , whom I called long distance , I had Cortelyou on long distance from New York at midnight . He said he had practically exhausted his funds with the demands of New York banks , but would let ...
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| Title | Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes, Bascom Nolly Timmons |
| Author | Bascom Nolly Timmons |
| Publisher | Holt, 1953 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 344 pages |
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