Meet General GrantGarden Publishing Company, 1931 - 524 pages |
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Page 265
... wanted permission to do this and that ... business men who had come down from the North to make money out of the war - some of them his own rela- tives . . . cotton speculators people who wanted passes to go outside his lines on some ...
... wanted permission to do this and that ... business men who had come down from the North to make money out of the war - some of them his own rela- tives . . . cotton speculators people who wanted passes to go outside his lines on some ...
Page 447
... wanted Fish to send Motley a cablegram , telling him to get out of the embassy forthwith . Fish said that such a procedure would not be dignified , but Grant wanted it done , anyway . It was not done ; Fish finally persuaded him to let ...
... wanted Fish to send Motley a cablegram , telling him to get out of the embassy forthwith . Fish said that such a procedure would not be dignified , but Grant wanted it done , anyway . It was not done ; Fish finally persuaded him to let ...
Page 490
... wanted the family to take as a gift . They finally took it as a loan . It was on these two contributions that the General and Mrs. Grant lived for some time . Mr. Vanderbilt said nothing about his one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ...
... wanted the family to take as a gift . They finally took it as a loan . It was on these two contributions that the General and Mrs. Grant lived for some time . Mr. Vanderbilt said nothing about his one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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