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...detail, who is not upset by routine, and who does his best work by himself. It is the keystone of all business, and as an all-embracing function in the world of commerce and industry, it provides a point of vantage from which to study all businesses and a background that is readily transferable from one business to another...
Pardon a subscriber for mentioning it, but isn't it possible never to duplicate such ordinary pictures in LIFE and TIME, even if one has to show the President in the background, just to be different-for which TIME is notorious...
...confer. Last week he called not one conference, but one or more conferences a day. No less than 19 Senators went to the White House successively. It looked almost as if the President meant to conduct a seat by seat canvass of the Senate. He likewise delivered a long "background" talk to newshawks...
Yaleman Charles Seymour is 52. Ruddy, well tailored, fond of rough tweed jackets and pipes, he does not suggest a distinguished historian (The Diplomatic Background of the War, 1870-1914; The Intimate Papers of Colonel House; American Neutrality, 1914-1917). He does suggest Yale. Son of Yale's longtime Greek Professor Thomas Day Seymour, he is descended from two Yale presidents and has been Yale royalty from his youth. That did not keep him from taking a B. A. degree at Cambridge before he entered Yale's Class of 1908. He managed the freshman and varsity crews, belonged...
Devoid of the usual superfluity of spectacle which characterizes the great majority of DeMilfe flascos, the picture is built around the background of the lawless and bloody period of American history when each move to the westward was greeted by wholesome bloodshed and torture from the Indians. Treachery on the part of eastern gun manufactures who send large shipments of a new and improved model of rifle to the Indians, leads to the great action scene where trick photography has achieved the most effective moving attack we have seen in years...