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Clinton W. Gilbert. Behind the Mirrors: The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington
Behind the Mirrors: The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
ILLUSTRATIONS
BEHIND THE MIRRORS
CHAPTER I
PRESIDENT HARDING AND THE CLOCK. GOD'S TIME AS IT WAS IN THE AMERICAN POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS
CHAPTER II
GOD'S TIME AS IT IS; AN INGERSOLL THAT REQUIRES MUCH WINDING
UNCLE SAM'S CONFERENCE
CHAPTER III
GOLDEN WORDS TURN TO BRASS
REPRESENTATIVE FRANK W. MONDELL OF WYOMING
CHAPTER IV
THE SUPER-PRESIDENT GOES DOWN IN THE GENERAL SMASH
CHAPTER V
LOOKING FOR ULTIMATE WISDOM—IN THE BOSOM OF THÉRÈSE
LORD RIDDELL
CHAPTER VI
SHALL WE FIND OUR SALVATION SITTING, LIKE MR. MELLON, ON A PILE OF DOLLARS
ANDREW W. MELLON, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
CHAPTER VII
THE BOTTLE NECK OF THE CABINET, AND WHAT IS IN THE BOTTLE
ARTHUR BALFOUR
ATTORNEY-GENERAL H. M. DAUGHERTY
CHAPTER VIII
THE GREATEST COMMON DIVISOR OF MUCH LITTLENESS
CHAPTER IX
CONGRESS AT LAST WITH SOMETHING TO DO HAS NO ONE TO DO IT
SENATOR JAMES E. WATSON OF INDIANA
REPRESENTATIVE FREDERICK H. GILLETT OF MASSACHUSETTS
CHAPTER X
INTERLUDE. INTRODUCING A FEW MEMBERS OF THE UPPER HOUSE BOOBOISIE AND SOME OTHERS
SENATOR JOSEPH S FRELINGHUYSEN OF NEW JERSEY
SENATOR HARRY S. NEW OF INDIANA
SENATOR JAMES W. WADSWORTH OF NEW YORK
SENATOR WILLIAM M. CALDER OF NEW YORK
CHAPTER XI
A PEAK OF REALITY THRUSTS UP ON THE LEVEL PLAIN OF SHAMS
SENATOR ARTHUR I CAPPER OF KANSAS
GREY SILVER, THE MAN BEHIND THE FARM BLOC
CHAPTER XII
THE HAPPY ENDING
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Clinton W. Gilbert
Published by Good Press, 2021
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"We should," I say, but I do our inmost thought a vast injustice. Rather, Progress would, scientists and inventors being only the instruments of a Fate which went steadily forward to the accomplishment of its beneficent purposes. At the right moment, at the appointed hour, the man would appear. Progress kept the prompter's book and gave him the cue.
To a people with all these evidences of an irresistible forward movement in Nature before its eyes, came a prophet who gave it its law, the law of evolution, the law by which once the monocellular organism had acquired the mysterious gift of life out of combination and recombination inevitably came man. It was all the unfolding of the inevitable, the unrolling of time; the working out of a law.
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