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I.—[President Harding and the Clock. God's Time as it was in the American Political Consciousness ]3
II.—[God's Time as it is; an Ingersoll that Requires Much Winding ]21
III.—[Golden Words Turn to Brass ]36
IV.—[The Super-President Goes Down in the General Smash ]61
V.—[Looking for Ultimate Wisdom—in the Bosom of Thérèse ]80
VI.—[Shall We Find our Salvation Sitting, Like Mr. Mellon, on a Pile of Dollars ]101
VII.—[The Bottle Neck of the Cabinet, and What is in the Bottle ]119
VIII.—[The Greatest Common Divisor of Much Littleness ]142
IX.—[Congress at Last with Something to Do has no one to Do it ]156
X.—[Interlude. Introducing a Few Members of the Upper House Booboisie and Some Others ]173
XI.—[A Peak of Reality Thrusts up on the Level Plain of Shams ]204
XII.—[The Happy Ending ]226

ILLUSTRATIONS

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[President Warren Gamaliel Harding ]Frontispiece
[Uncle Sam's Conference ]26
[Representative Frank W. Mondell of Wyoming ]44
[Lord Riddell ]96
[Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury ]112
[Arthur Balfour ]130
[Attorney-General H. M. Daugherty ]138
[Senator James E. Watson of Indiana ]160
[Representative Frederick H. Gillett of Massachusetts ]166
[Senator Joseph S. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey ]180
[Senator Harry S. New of Indiana ]188
[Senator James W. Wadsworth of New York ]190
[Senator William M. Calder of New York ]192
[Senator Arthur I. Capper of Kansas ]216
[Gray Silver, the Man Behind the Farm Bloc ]222

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