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...nail by competitors and the Interstate Commerce Commission was appealed to time & again to pry the New Haven loose from its subsidiary, New England Steamship Co. In recent years these efforts have subsided, as though it were not worth while to make a fuss over a herd of once glorious but now old and asthmatic white elephants. New England Steamship Co. lost...
...bewhiskered and filthy." He had faced witnesses with the uneasy feeling that "one can never tell when one of those hill billies [among the spectators] will pump a six-gun at him." He had done it all absolutely without charge or fee, paying even his own expenses. "What a glorious opportunity it was for the lot to fall to a Jew to strike a blow for the emancipation of the colored race! ... It has given me a vista of 14,000,000 people ... in the chains of bondage...
...answer, but he was really competing with himself. That the American outlived the World by six years may have been some satisfaction, however expensive, but Mr. Hearst's deepest publishing sensibilities must have been involved by the thought of his cheap Mirror outliving the pride of his glorious youth...
...Located as it is on the largest man-made island in the world, in the very heart of glorious San Francisco Bay, bounded by the skyline of San Francisco and Oakland, the Golden Gate, the green hills of the Redwood Empire; and in the shadows of the world's two largest bridges, the Golden Gate International Exposition can hardly fail to attract either foreign or domestic exhibitors, and most certainly will not lack for attendance...
...cool old Calvin's glorious days...