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...Timpkins Coal Company, the Libby-Owen Glass Company, the Toledo Ship Building Company, and the Goodrich Tire Company will be inspected. From Cleveland to Boston the itinerary includes the White Motor Company at Cleveland, the Eastman Kodak Company at Rochester, the Dutchess Bleachery at Wappingers Falls, the American Brass Company and the Winchester Arms Company, both at Bridgeport...
...writers, she has pleased the critics as well as the public with at least two of her books, Mother and the recent Certain People of Importance. This tall, aquiline-featured, dominant woman is of literary family. Her husband, a brother of Frank Norris, is Charles Norris, whose Salt and Brass are both American novels of worth, and she is aunt to the children of William Rose Benet, the poet. Her life has been a varied one, and it shows in her keen understanding of women's hearts and minds, and in her unfailing observation of detail. About...
Upton Sinclair, brass-check novelist: " I was nominated for Congress by the Labor Party to represent the Tenth California District...
...left Italy years ago, as he tells you, with nothing save a few dollars and his guitar. These he lost in a card game on the boat. In New York he began his career as an impresario by organizing political demonstrations on election day. He became a manager of brass bands, and finally secretary of the San Carlo Company. The troupe was doing poorly, and soon went stranded down in the Southwest Gallo bought out the owner for a small price, and immediately started the company toward success. He is very shrewd and a good showman has a genius...
...full of fun. She likes dancing considerably better than governing, and the heroic copy-hound less than either. Elements involved are tabloid revolutions, aeroplane fights, a New York cabaret, and continuous dancing, with or without provocation. The queen being Mae Murray, that is all very predictable and completely satisfying. BRASS-Philip marries lively Marjorie. Shortly, after the preliminary measure of a divorce, Marjorie attaches herself and affections to one Roy North. Philip finds a loving little consolation all his own, and is just arranging another marriage, when back comes Marjorie, dissatisfied with her recent readjustment. She asks her husband...