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Since the legendary exploit of Icarus man has been trying to find a means of flight, and many famous names are associated with the attempts. Now that the immediate end has been accomplished, it seems trivial for the Smithsonian Institute to quibble with one of the inventors who were chiefly responsible for the success. It is of little import whether the contributions of the Wrights were or were not minor improvements which only added the finishing touches to a mechanism almost complete. The fact remains that they gave final impetus to what is now one of the greatest of modern...
Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere, brother and successor to the late famed Lord Northcliffe, heads the new group. He announced, last week, that it will exploit the news service of his Daily Mail and the picture service of his Daily Mirror by enlarging both to serve a to-be-founded chain of afternoon papers in Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Newcastle, Glasgow. Thus Lord Rothermere proclaims that he will enter cutthroat competition with the numerous afternoon newspapers already owned in the provinces by the famed Berry brothers (TIME...
...nickel paid for a copy of the Saturday Evening Post does not pay for the cost of paper alone. But the $8,000 that the magazine charges for a full-page advertisement in black and the $11,500 for four-color pages yield profits which financiers are beginning to exploit. Each reader may be a prospect for the sale of such securities, just as almost every user of electricity in the U. S. has been offered investments in his "home" public utility...
...coalition cabinet of Chancellor Dr. Wilhelm Marx. Previously the Nationalists had refused to enter any cabinet, since to do so would be to pocket their Monarchist leanings and definitely acknowledge the validity of the Republic. In one year much has changed. Today, the Nationalists chiefly desire to retain and exploit their position in the cabinet. But the cabinet shakes with conflict of other parties within the coalition. Therefore, again the goose quill...
...joined them later. The I. W. W. took great care to use peaceful methods. Weapons were forbidden. U. S. flags, usually carried by children, headed their processions. Women joined the marches to mines which were still operating, notably a Mrs. Santa Bernash of Trinidad, whose most famed exploit was scratching and rumpling some guards who tried to detain her at a bridgehead near Ludlow.* Her followers pitched two of the guards into Bear Creek. She was arrested, jailed, and to take her place at the marching picketers' head came her sister, Amelia Siblich, called "Flaming Milka" for the bright...