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...representatives of the Mine Owners Association to confer with him at the Premier's residence, No. 10 Downing Street. Though the owners continued obstinate in their demands that the coal strike be terminated by regional agreements which would shatter the power of the great unions, Mr. Churchill remained firm in the Cabinet's new position and submitted a plan of compromise for consideration by the owners in detail...
...Harry Gordon Selfridge, Wisconsin born, became a member of Marshall Field & Co. in Chicago. Fourteen years later, after he had shown himself a great department store executive, had become general manager of and partner in his firm, he retired from business...
...have founded and into which I have put so much of myself will go on. Naturally, I should like Selfridge's to remain in the family, but I do not want to feel that if one of my descendants is weak and incapable of administration, this great firm will go down with...
...limp. China teemed with soldiers and brigands. Drought and sand storms were growing yearly worse. . . . But the Dodges pulled again. Urga was reached and passed again and again. Heady preparations, an invaluable caravan chief and keen diplomacy made life not merely possible but enjoyable. Good humor, good sportsmanship and firm purpose seem to have been the prime characteristics of Mr. Andrews' cosmopolitan score of associates, and as their historian, Mr. Andrews is as lively as he is conscientious. He finds room to mention strenuous game hunts, native customs and practical jokes quite as plentifully as epochal discoveries and scientific...
...graduated from Wabash College (Indiana) in 1900, secured an M. A. in 1904. His thesis was "The Negro Problem." Long a member of the law firm of Hays and Hays, he began to interest himself in politics, became the Republican National Committee Chairman in 1918. People wondered at this "human flivver," this sophisticated "booster," this shrewd politician who quoted the Golden Rule, who said, "There is no twilight zone in politics; right is right and wrong is wrong . . . rights shall be held equally sacred and sacredly equal...