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Page 91 - ... the established policy of the United States to maintain the two metals on a parity with each other upon the present legal ratio, or such ratio as may be provided by law.
Page 10 - Euphrates, and will soon be able to march under the walls of the second Babylon and its mysteries too. The infernal blood-sucking bank system will be overthrown, for the handwriting is on the wall.
Page 274 - Every financial institution that I have anything to do with will be governed by that idea, and the Great Midwestern properties, while I run them, will decrease their capital expenditures as prices rise and increase them as prices fall. When we show them the whole trick and how it pays everybody will do it. We won't have any more depressions and Coxey's armies. We won't have any more unemployment. In a country like this unemployment is economic lunacy.
Page 99 - Then, all of a sudden, without any warning, he brought his fist down on the table with a force that made the...
Page 190 - How can the Great Midwestern be made to earn a profit of ten per cent.?" No. He said: "How shall we make the Great Midwestern system the greatest transportation machine in the world?
Page 273 - that the financial institutions of the country, — I mean the insurance companies and the banks, — instead of lending themselves out of funds in times of high prosperity ought then to build up great reserves of capital to be loaned out in hard times. That would keep people from going crazy with prosperity at one time and committing suicide at another time. But they won't do it by themselves.
Page 133 - ... just to state that when I made my former statement about the Governor asking me to appoint an assistant, it was very terse, and I would like to present to this committee my version of that conversation. To the best of my recollection, about a week or 10 days before Governor Holt went out of office he called me on the telephone and asked me to come to his office to discuss a matter. After arriving at his office and the passage of some preliminary remarks, he indicated that the question of whether...
Page 9 - In one of the sermons, of which a report has reached us, he declared the present condition of the country to be the fulfillment of the revelation to St. John. The horns of the beast were the seven conspiracies against the money of the people ; the ten horns were the ten monopolies, foremost among them the sugar trust. Grover Cleveland had called an extra session of Congress, and by the aid of " that gray-headed rat from Ohio, John Sherman," had been able to heal the wounds of the seventh head by...
Page 189 - He wrote down the number of the house and the name and address of the real estate firm from the sign and we were through. An agent was sent immediately to buy the property. He telephoned before the end of the day. "We've got it, Coxey,
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Driver The Driver, Garet Garrett |
| Author | Garet Garrett |
| Publisher | E.P. Dutton, 1922 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Sep 19, 2005 |
| Length | 294 pages |
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