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Most curious thing about the Gannett papers is that they follow no set mold, have no common editorial or typographical formula. Each was a growing concern when Publisher Gannett bought it (average age: 75 years). Each is permitted to continue virtually without interference as an individual newspaper reflecting local conditions and sentiment. Only common denominator of the Gannett papers is that each aims to be as clean, honest and wholesome as its Unitarian publisher...
After Domesday Book (1920) Edgar Lee Masters temporarily abandoned verse, wrote a series of thesis novels intended to demonstrate the spiritual superiority of the pre-indusrial Midwest over that of the present. His hostile biography of Lincoln gave evidence of his increasing concern with nationalism, since it presented Lincoln as the wrecker rather than the savior of the Union...
...Church of Rome once was apprehensive of the apparently upstart tendencies of Catholicism in the U. S. However successful the "American brand" of Catholicism was, there remained some nervous concern in 1924 when Patrick Hayes arrived in Rome to receive his red hat. He looked too young to be a Cardinal. And he shocked many a Roman when he preached his first sermon in his titular church in English. Then the new Cardinal cabled home: "My blessings to Little Old New York." That, eleven years later, the Pope chose his "dear little brother" Hayes to send to Cleveland rather than...
...abroad (over a 4¢ per Ib. tariff) or from Aluminum Co. of America, sole domestic source. The Baush management regards Aluminum as an unfair enterprise. Aluminum's opinion of Baush was summed up by an Aluminum lawyer who, noting the company's succession of deficits, remarked that the Springfield concern seemed primarily engaged in the "lawsuit business...
...city 97¢ on the dollar, then resold the bonds to bankers at 92¢, pocketing the loss because the proceeds were used to complete civic improvement promised lot-owners. Another $4,500,000 issue, which the corporation purchased from the city for a little less than par, cost the Merrick concern nearly $1,000,000 to market. A fee of $600,000 was necessary to persuade the bankers to take it at any price. Hundreds of thousands were lavished on promotion. Out of the goodness of his heart William Jennings Bryan gave 50 bond salesmen special fight talks. Today Coral Gables...