National Affairs: Dawesology

In Chicago, the Vice President told a story. In Boston, he created a noonday commotion and dominated a solemn evening jubilee.

The Story. Jack, Charlie, Bill, whose surnames were respectively Pershing, Dawes, Bryan, were accustomed to eat together at Don Cameron's lunch counter in Lincoln, Neb. Said Mr. Dawes:

"Of the three, John was known in the community as a representative of the proletariat, I as one of the bourgeoisie and Bryan as a scion of the organized, predatory plutocracy. For Bryan lived in a two-story house on D Street, I in a one-story cottage and...

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