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Interviewed, Empire Builder James announced that his purchase was "purely personal." He meant by this that in making it he did not look upon himself as representing the many other companies in which he owns controlling interest...
...wealth Mr. Coolidge thus informs us, is the measure of our faith. We are rich because we are honest. The entire structure of industrial America is builder upon ultimate spiritual realities and only because it is so builded, does it endure. So speaks the man who told Europe that if it had conducted its affairs as intelligently and efficiently as we have conducted ours, it would be as happy and prosperous...
...Manhattan." The Plain Dealer was irked. Gone was the comfort of its accidental monopoly, for on the scene had come a man who not only knew how to cater to Cleveland's melting-pot citizenry but who had also an impressive 30-year record as reorganizer and builder on other links in the Scripps-Howard chain and as organizer of the flourishing Newspaper Enterprise Association (feature service). His ability and personality had won him a host of friends in town and through the state, and his company was said to have a cool million dollars in hand...
...Angeles, haven of the spiritually restless, has a mystery. Its famed and wealthy evangelist, builder and owner of the $1,000,000 Angelus Temple, Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson, has disappeared. No one can account for her. All that is known is that three weeks ago she entered a beach hotel and reappeared in a bathing suit variously described as dark green or dark blue. She was a well formed woman and attracted many an idle eye. High-piled, unshorn dark hair; full, wide lips a little irregular; unusually white teeth; a generous nose; eager, long-lashed eyes-her description...
Such a philosophy is wholly admirable. It leaves no place for commercialism, and it demands a type or coach of as fine a character as graces the professorial chairs. "Bill" Bingham was introduced to his audience by Vice President Garcelon as "the character-builder." The man who is building character into his teams also is creating winners. The Boston Transcript...