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...Americans, and a wit which crackled and sparkled to the discomfiture of the Americans. "In the Garden of Eden all animals were given tails, but men were left to form their own conclusions. Our chief function in coming to America is to forge one more link in the chain binding Harvard and Oxford together, but above all to convince the Harvard team of the error of its conclusions...
Samuel Rea, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, retired last week, at 70. He will remain as a director. Mr. Rea, who rose from rodman in a chain gang, through every department of the railroad to election to the Presidency in 1913, is an industrialist of a school that is rapidly passing into legend- a school whose favorite reading matter is the Bible, whose favorite exercise is obtained with an ax handle, who believe that work is the secret of their success, and who - nourished in the fervor of an epoch fat with expansion -have an impugnable faith in every...
Although the retail grocer has the highest turnover, yet wholesalers as a class outrank retailers in this respect. The fact that all stocks of clothing and groceries turn over twice as rapidly as drugs, hardware and shoes throws considerable light on the greater success of chain store organizations of late years in just these two fields...
...good golf game, like a good short story, has a pattern; events climb up to a climax, poise for a moment, then climb down again. So it was with the match of Gunn against Jones. The knot in the chain, the plateau of the climb, the scene the reporters were waiting for, came at the 12th hole...
...outside distractions, however, was to make the sessions of the Congress more harmonious than was expected, for there is a marked difference of opinion among Zionists as to the best course to pursue, and it was thought that a break might occur. On the one hand was Dr. Chain Weizmann, onetime President of the World Zionist Organization, who has the backing of American Jewry. His program has been for colonization of Palestine with sound business or "capitalistic" methods. Opposed to him was a fiery Jewish Fascist, Vladimir Jabotinsky, inhabitant of Paris. He wants all the land of Palestine...