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...coat is standing with his arms stretched out toward convicts who are sitting along benches. There are faces of anger, or despair, or ennui, or terror. A Negro looks at the floor hard, as if he were trying to remember something that made him sad. He is wearing a chain around...
...avenue down which an author's ideas, facts & fancies may ride to the bookshelves of the world. Doubleday, Doran & Co. is certainly the most potent book publishing concern in the U. S. which owns its own production plant. Doubleday, Doran & Co. has already (through Doubleday, Page) started a chain of U. S. bookstores which will provide the most extensive retail machinery known to bookmakers. Doubleday, Doran & Co. will do everything for an author but write his book; and for a reader, everything but read it. In England the famed firm of William Heinemann, Ltd., is the property...
...Caledonia, Ohio, he used to belong to the "Chain Gang." This small village, close to Marion, Ohio, held also a band of boys calling themselves the "Stunners." The two gangs fought continually and thus became lifelong friends. Dan Crissinger of the "Chain Gang" was obliged " to milk cows before school, feed cows and chop wood after school. And one day Dan Crissinger literally "monkeyed with the buzzsaw" in his father's lumber mill. His hand was crippled so badly for farm work that his father saw the wisest thing would be to train the boy's mind. Therefore...
Daniel Richard Crissinger had always been a Democrat, but now that a Republican "Stunner" was playing the biggest game of all, the least a "Chain Ganger" could do was change his politics for the time being. When "Stunner" Harding was elected President, he returned the guerdon of friendship, taking "Chain Ganger" Crissinger down to Washington to be Comptroller of the Currency...
Last week, Mr. Crissinger resigned as governor of the Federal Reserve Board. One of the few Harding appointees reappointed by President Coolidge, he was the last important member of the so-called "Ohio Gang"† and the last member, important, or unimportant, of the "Chain Gang" or the "Stunners" left in Washington. He explained to President Coolidge and Secretary Mellon that his resignation was in no way influenced by the controversy which the Federal Reserve Board had lately with its Chicago member bank, when Mr. Crissinger was charged with domineering because he cast a deciding vote to make the Chicago...