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...three months' enlistment, he became a Captain in the Fourth Pennsylvania Cavalry. During the war, he rose step by step to a colonelcy. Peace came. He slipped back to be a Sec ond Lieutenant and once again began his steady rise. The Spanish War gave him a sudden boost; and he rose to be a Brigadier General; then a Major General of Volunteers...
...twiddle in Chicago's theatres are now paid salaries which range from $57.50 to $87.75 per week. Seven hundred of them, the musical personnel of 35 theatres, have decided that this is not enough money. They want an increase of 10%. Through their union, they demanded the boost. The theatre owners proposed a compromise on a 5% raise. The musicians shook their heads, issued an ultimatum, stood pat, scheduled a strike to begin on Labor Day unless their demands are met in full...
...this Mr. Gompers again replied, elaborating on his 'denial that Mr. Davis should receive credit for points 2) and 3). He closed by giving Mr. LaFollette another boost...
...papers" (i.e., cinema, sport, health, politics, joke fans.) 2) " Better sporting departments." 3) "Better first pages." 4) "Snappier news and editorial writing." The writer then closed, mellifluously: "Papers everywhere are splendidly good." There are, obviously, exceptions to the rules thus laid down. What newspaper, save the Chicago Tribune, could "boost" its home town with more incessant ardor than the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the Baltimore Sun, the Bridgeport Post, the Philadelphia Public Ledger or the New York World? What newspaper could, in fairness to its readers, carry more educational news than that earnest sheet, the Christian Science Monitor? What newspaper would...
...Hearst publications are a good example. With several publications under one control, it is only natural that one of them should advertise in another. But the typical tactics of the trust idea in publications are to go beyond the mere exchange of overt advertising and to boost one another editorially. The Hearst papers do this continually. The result of such attempts may almost invariably be diagnosed by a glance at the "puff" which is printed as news or comment. It is usually fatuous, vapid. Its very effort to spread butter is nauseous and flat. The best publishing ethics...