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...President Coolidge wrote to commend William Ritter, founder of a large lumber business in Columbus, who gave some $2,000,000 of stock in his company to 124 employes as a Christmas gift. Wrote Mr. Coolidge: "Such acts of generosity cannot help but lead to better cooperation and understanding between the employers and employes, and you are to be commended for the fine example you have shown...
...asks permission to commit tauricide and, that received, next dedicates the animal to a portion of the arena, or to a lady, or to a wealthy patron, by tossing his hat into the stand. When the hat comes back, its owner is confident of finding therein some costly gift...
...yields and entirely vanishes. But many-a great many-Filipino politicians are not concerned with independence, for the advocacy of it gains their ends; and to achieve independence would deprive them of their easiest road to office. So they play with the independence idea and, with a true gift for the dramatic, dress it in a thousand garbs and adorn it with a thousand gestures. Now they squabble with the Governor General; now they send themselves a-junketing to Washington; always they play with the 1,000,000 peso "Independence Fund" voted annually by the legislature, from which they replenish...
...erected in the East Room of the White House; and the Coolidges (who are not attending public theatricals) assembled with a score of guests. Howard Thurston arrived with a moving van full of paraphenalia. With ducks, geese, pigeons, rabbits he prestidigitated. Then he took the President's watch, a gift from the Massachusetts Legislature, smashed it with a hammer, called for a loaf of bread from the kitchen. It was brought. Mrs. Coolidge cut it; and who would believe it??the watch appeared within, quite whole...
...dedication is very properly made to Mr. George F. Baker, who has insured the future of the School by his gift of last spring--"Through his generosity and foresight he has given the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration increasing opportunity for training men to a greater understanding of the purpose of business and a fuller appreciation of business integrity...