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...accomplishment of this character and magnitude is worthy of the greatest effort and concentration on the part of those who meet in international amateur sport. They can achieve results which bring the people of various nations together on the firm ground of mutual understanding, appreciation and trust which goes far to eliminate jealousy, mistrust, and danger of war. To successfully achieve such a splendid and desirable objective raises International Tennis to lofty standards far more important than the game itself...
...June 12. The Shipping Board voted him the honor, however, of being its special representative on the initial trip of the Leviathan from New York to Southampton on July 4. After that Mr. Lasker will return to Chicago?whence the new chairman comes?and again head the advertising firm of Lord and Thomas...
Among the De Valera demands: a return of firearms to the republicans; the oath of allegiance to King George made optional; the liberation of republican funds in America at present under injunction; in fact, he wanted to secure a firm basis for the republican party in Ireland...
...advertisements. There is poetry in the line "meaty marrowy oxtail joints" used to describe a well-known soup. A prose rhythm of unusual smoothness is discovered in an automobile advertisement. "The velvety clutch responds to the merest pressure. . . . The plant but positive gears engage silently". One nationally known electric firm prints well rounded essays to describe its product, and the Ann Sawyers and Well-Dressed Men gossip like Pepys and Evelyn...
...Twenty-five years later he emerged from the distinguished law firm of Winston, Payne, Strawn & Shaw, and at the call of Woodrow Wilson, became in rapid succession: General Counsel to the Emergency Fleet Corporation and to the Director General of Railroads, Chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, Secretary of the Interior...