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...newshawks rushed in to interview an author who was autographing his books, Williams of West Point, Williams on Service. Instead of asking him literary questions, they asked his opinion of NRA. Said General Hugh S. Johnson, author of juveniles: "It is dead as a dodo ?and that is extinct." Then, by way of literary gossip, he dropped the fact that the day before he had had a three-hour talk with President Roosevelt. What that talk concerned the President revealed two days later when he announced: "The time has come to take the profit out of war." To take...
...collector the late florid George Dawson Rowley of Brighton attempted to avoid competition by concentrating on the eggs and skins of the extinct Great Auk. He assembled the greatest collection of Auk eggs in the world before his death. At the sale last week Captain Vivian Hewitt (first aviator to fly the Irish Sea-1912) bought two eggs and two skins, for a total of $7,245, and these added to his previous collections made him in turn the world's greatest private Great Auk collector. The Rev. Francis Charles Robert Jourdain, Vicar of Ashburn-cum-Mapleton, president...
...first half of September, that DNC's holdings were down to 1,700,000 bags. And Tea & Coffee quoted the handsome, black-haired young lawyer as declaring before a group of junketing U. S. coffeemen: "When within two months the flames of coffee burning in Brazil are extinct . . . you will all be in a position to state in your country that the DNC has completely achieved its program for the elimination of all excess coffee stocks...
...Victorian Age was a great believer in literary volcanoes. It preferred them extinct, but from the semi-active ones it got delightful tremors. To Victorians, Elinor Glyn might have seemed a volcano in full blast, but plain readers today will find it hard to believe that she was ever in a state of eruption. Famed as the popularizer of "It," she still enjoys a smoky reputation which is mostly smokescreen. Many a nonreader who smacks over the supposed lubricities of Three Weeks would find it tame and harmless stuff. Elinor Glyn was a scandalous sensation to 1907, but 1934 will...
...slowest pace in eleven years. With regulation a fact, weary brokers frankly admitted that in their fight against a Federal strait-jacket they had painted the future somewhat blacker than it was likely to be. Their business would be different under Federal rule but by no means extinct...