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Inside your front cover are these words: "Cultivated Americans, impatient with cheap sensationalism and windy bias, turn increasingly to publications edited in the historical spirit. These publications, fairdealing, vigorously impartial, devote themselves to the public weal in the sense that they report what they see, serve no masters, fear no groups...
...political pleading has seldom been heard. The Hughes presence, dignity, prestige and good form are almost unique in U. S. public life. Few other fig- ures could have administered so impressively the prefatory rebukes to the Brown Derby which Spokesman Hughes uttered. He charged Nominee Smith with indulging in "cheap ridicule," "diatribe," "absurd tirades." "He [Nominee Smith] has stooped too low to conquer. . . . One's sense of fairness is affronted," said Mr. Hughes. "He misrepresents the position of Mr. Hoover and attempts to distort the meaning of Mr. Hoover's fine presentation of the true liberalism...
Johnny Hayes, after the day he won his country the race, returned to Manhattan and the sports department of a cheap store where he had previously been a clerk. After 1910, he ran in no more races; in 1912, he coached the U. S. Olympic marathoners...
Such methods as those to which Mr. Cohen has stooped are cheap, idle and ineffectual. They are unbecoming enough to anyone in political argument but especially so in his case; as publicity manager of the "Harvard Thomas-for-President Club" he can ill-afford with his meager following of a hundred, to give the impression that his party sanctions the use of such weapons...
Easily classified were the guests of the educators and the butchers. Henry Ford was first of cheap motorcar makers; Thomas Alva Edison was first to perfect the phonograph, the incandescent lamp and many another U. S. industrial staple. In photography, none outranks Rochester's music-loving George Eastman. Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis is 78, is dean of newspaper and magazine publishers. How long is their service to science and industry is indicated by the average of their ages-74. Younger are the two historic exponents of commercial aviation, youngest of great industries. Orville Wright, at 57, is seven years...