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...window, singing "On the Banks of the Wabash". Also as pre-arranged, the two actresses stepped from their car, stared up at the window, and, before the crowd thus attracted, entered the building and brought Nina Barbour out to notoriety and motored her away to a consequent theatre contract. Again, Mr. Reichenbach brought success as a screen play to the tawdry "Tarzan of the Apes", by releasing a live ape named Prince Charley in the vestibule of the Hotel Knickerbocker. He writes "Next morning the story broke in every New York paper. Over long accounts of Charlie's adventures, were...
...international movement to secure recognition for business as a profession and to develop business as a science is the organization of The Business Historical Society, recently chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and having a membership covering the United States and Canada. It has negotiated and closed a contract with the University, whereby its collections will be permanently deposited and united with those of the Harvard Business Library...
...miners had offered to make a two and one-half or a five year contract on definite terms, but would not hear of arbitration. The operators were equally intent on securing an arrangement under which there would be no strikes for a long period?as near a permanent settlement as possible, with automatic means of adjustment as conditions changed...
Finally those who tottered to Les Halles (the public markets) for breakfast, drank a farewell toast in steaming peasant soup to M. Carpentier, "georgeous Orchid Man." He had announced his intention of sailing within the next few days to fulfill a cinema contract in California...
...first item in your magazine this week (Dec. 7 issue) consists of a short paragraph stating that Coolidge received a letter from John L. Lewis stating that the bituminous operators had broken their contract. In your zeal to keep up your reputation for giving information in short paragraphs, you failed to mention that this is the same Coolidge who on July 19 assured the newspapers at Swampscott that he "has determined to prevent a coal strike." The strike came, as we all know, and "the little calm, cool man" had the same remedy as usual to suggest, "nothing...