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...matter of confidence." He ran away from school to work for Cyrus Hermann Kotschmar Curtis when that famed publisher was starting the Ladies' Home Journal, and entered business for himself at 20. He knew nothing then of electricity, "knows less today," yet is now president of a large concern making electrical apparatus (Cutter Electric & Manufacturing Co.) by reason of a genius for not interfering with men trained to their jobs. "He smokes incessantly, has no love for automobiles, regards a screwdriver with suspicion and a monkey-wrench with horror." Modest, he will permit no one to address...
...into training? The parental attitude was: our son is unusual (or erratic or talented or temperamental or stupid) and he needs special, individual attention. The Rosenbaum Tutoring School gave him special attention, mentally, and left him to his own devices out of the classroom as any businesslike concern naturally would...
...Message. To the 69th Congress, meeting in December, will go a message from the President touching on all matters of public concern...
...Rogers Peet Co., clothiers, have five stores in Manhattan. Although few of the many Manhattan gentlemen who cover the span between their swaddling and their graveclothes in the sailor-suitings, Norfolks, long pants and cutaways of this concern, have ever beheld, in the flesh, either Mr. Rogers or Mr. Peet, few are without their conception of the personal appearance of these able outfitters. They envision Rogers as a spindling little man, whose pathetic shanks, shrunken torso and desiccated arms, contrast oddly with the twinkling zest of his round impish face, the shrewd pucker of his mobile mouth; they picture Peet...
...Communists' fiery talk of mutiny and revolution belongs to an age which has passed. Their most furious utterances arouse, among people who know, more amusement than concern for what they...