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Then the old man was direct, plain-spoken, simple-appearing, and wholly unpretentious qualities which Cowperwood deemed invaluable. Once or twice in the last three years Laughlin had lost heavily on private "corners" that he had attempted to engineer, and the general feeling was that he was now becoming cautious, or, in other words, afraid. "Just the man," Cowperwood thought.
I ain't seen ner heard sight of him fer years." Cowperwood sent old Peter to look up Mr. Sippens and find out what he was really doing, and whether he would be interested to get back in the gas business. Enter, then, a few days later into the office of Peter Laughlin & Co. Henry De Soto Sippens.
Carrie Chapman Catt, National president, Miss Gail Laughlin and Miss Laura A. Gregg, organizers, arrived in Helena and in conjunction with the State officers planned a campaign to include a meeting in every town of any importance. Mrs.
"I don't like to talk that way to the President, yet it doesn't express half what I feel." "It's your duty to tell the President the real state of affairs," Mr. Laughlin would urge. "But do you suppose it does any good?" "Yes, it's bound to, and whether it does or not, it's your business to keep him informed."
He was now in the real-estate business in Lake View. Old Peter Laughlin knew him. "He's a smart little cuss," Laughlin told Cowperwood. "I thort onct he'd make a go of it, but they ketched him where his hair was short, and he had to let go. There was an explosion in his tank over here near the river onct, an I think he thort them fellers blew him up. Anyhow, he got out.
Miss Laughlin spent these two weeks in Butte, where she spoke to a number of labor unions and obtained resolutions strongly endorsing woman suffrage from the Silver Bow Trades and Labor Assembly, a delegate body representing 10,000 men. Mrs.
Thus he stumbled one morning on old Peter Laughlin, wheat and corn trader, who had an office in La Salle Street near Madison, and who did a modest business gambling for himself and others in grain and Eastern railway shares.
The first difficulty presented to the State Department was to determine its attitude toward this usurper. A few days after President Wilson's inauguration Mr. Mr. Laughlin informed the Foreign Office that he was not instructed that the United States had decided on any policy, but that he felt sure it would be to the advantage of both countries to follow the same line.
Miss Laughlin spent the summer and fall visiting every town of importance, organizing more than thirty clubs, and securing committees to circulate petitions where organization was impracticable.
All the men outside of Cowperwood were thinking how splendid Aileen was physically, how white were her arms, how rounded her neck and shoulders, how rich her hair. Chicago Gas Old Peter Laughlin, rejuvenated by Cowperwood's electric ideas, was making money for the house.
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