THE CABINET: Poor Chap Shapurji

The Secretary of State is a little man, and he is rather nervous in his manner. So the giants of wit and wisdom who wander among the concentric semicircles of desks in the Senate Chamber looked at him quizzically, and between the making of one law and the making of another dubbed him "Nervous Nellie."

With those who look with a critical eye upon him and all his actions, seeing the superficial eccentricity and overlooking the well-measured ability within the man, although he has long passed from those...

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