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On the U. S. side of the Great Lakes, last week, unwilling citizens of a Prohibition regime looked towards the promised land of Canada, saw it more promising still. Fat U. S. bootleggers chuckled over the prospect of a new source of whiskeys and fine wines; Wet U. S. Congressmen...
Manhattan's publishing organisms were again diminished in number. For something in the neighborhood of $2,850,000, the sons of the builder of the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung acquired and merged the 132-year-old Commercial and the century-old Journal of Commerce. The new hybrid's...
We speak of the refundum as an expression of the public will. But this is merely one of the pleasant self-deceptions which a democracy likes to cherish. For a referendum is at best nothing more than a call for the yeas and nays, with no opportunity for anyone to...
In Cleveland councilmen beamed. They had learned (unofficially through the Cleveland Press) that the Equitable Trust Co. of Manhattan with the concurrence of the Rockefellers might ask them for a franchise to build a $40,000,000 subway which eventually will go to the municipality free of cost. One Peter...
He is thoroughly of New York state; born in Bristol, schooled at Ithaca, where he got his start scrivening for the undergraduate Cornell Sun. But he would have been popular with the New Yorkers no matter where he was born. Smooth-faced, graying a little, just 50, his personality is...