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...automobile magnate's office, a department store, a beauty products laboratory, a baby food company, a pencil company, a film office, the Society of Authors and a boarding house. Resembling magazine rolls, two were opened and detonated, wounding three postal clerks and an automobile employe. Wrapped in the catalog of a St. Etienne munitions firm, each bomb contained the message: "We will strike the French people without distinction as to age. sex or rank, until they realize their cowardice, before the great pirates deprive them of the right to be severe toward ordinary criminals and stealers of handkerchiefs...
...jury which included Amelia Earhart Putnam, Madam Secretary Perkins (who voted by mail from a catalog) and Professor John Dewey found most beautiful a section of spring, an outboard propeller, a ring of ball bearings. The voting public chose a larger propeller, a triple mirror, a metal measure...
...state and lead the life of a normal western youth. As the last of the conquering Manchus that ruled China since 1644 it was his duty to have at least two wives. He did not want two wives, for he had already picked a beautiful bride from the catalog of a marriage broker. The daughter of a Manchu businessman named Jung Yuang, she had been educated by the Sisters Miriam and Isabel Ingram. Philadelphia missionaries, and preferred to be called Elizabeth. Elizabeth was quite sufficient but on the insistence of his Japanese "protectors" in Tientsin Henry took Wife...
...bits of original research ranging from the itemized cost of production of a 15th Century mystery play ($1,000 to $3,000; to the bulk of a Sunday edition of the New York Times (459 sq. feet, 2 lb. 6½ oz.). To carry scholasticism still farther, the elaborate catalog of the present exhibition which Assembler Simonson and the Museum of Modern Art have published contains no less than six learned introductions...
Twenty years ago, Julius Rosenwald got busy with the profits from his Sears Roebuck catalog. Since then, $4,000,000 of his money plus more than $4,000,000 from innumerable Negroes plus $1,000,000 from Southern whites plus $18,000,000 of public funds has built 5,357 Negro schoolhouses in 15 Southern States, thereby doubling the number of schools for U. S. Negro moppets...