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...Detroit, Henry Ford issued a brief and homely statement. It was not an announcement that he would be a candidate for President. Yet it aroused many commentators to agree with Arthur Brisbane, who characteristically exclaimed: "It's the biggest political news you have read in a year...
...Rockefeller of Germany has accepted no other title than that he gave himself-'the ironmaster.' . . . Stinnes never was an admirer of the Kaiser. In 1913 he refused to participate in the presentation of a memorial because, as he said to me, he considered the Kaiser as the biggest misfortune of the German Empire. . . . He lives in a modest little house in Berlin-the same house that was occupied by his parents. He dresses with almost studied simplicity. . . . August Thyssen, next to Stinnes, is the greatest business man in Germany." The next in order of greatness, he said...
...first skirmish is begun. It centers about the First Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, where Dr. Fosdick, Baptist, preaches most every Sunday. Three Presbyterian ministers lead the fight to oust Dr. Fosdick from that Presbyterian pulpit. One is Dr. Maitland Alexander of Pittsburgh. He is a rigid man, pastor of the biggest and richest Presbyterian church in Pittsburgh, himself rich. He is also President of the Board of Directors of Princeton Theological Seminary, famous for its changeless conservatism from generation to generation. The second leader is Dr. Walter D. Buchanan, pastor of the Broadway Presbyterian Church of New York City...
Scranton, Pa. Before one of the biggest meetings that he had ad- dressed in the U. S., and to an audience composed almost entirely of Welsh people, Mr. George paid a sterling tribute to Mr. Charles M. Schwab and voiced a plea for " help, help, help." Of Mr. Schwab, Mr. George said: "He was the first man to come to our aid in organizing a more ample and efficient supply of munitions. The Kaiser offered him three times the price his great plant was worth in an effort to rob us of his support, but he stood by the Allies...
...William Randolph Hearst: "My husband's newspapers announced that before leaving London for Paris I gave the biggest dinner-dance in London since Derby week...