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...family estates. Daisy finally smoothed things out. "I persuaded him to give in; surely no God would wish him to give up everything, all his future and position, for religion, when the Protestant religion is after all very like the Catholic and perhaps, in a way, purer and grander be- cause of its very simplicity...
...Bobbs-Merritt ($2.50).† When young Daniel Carson was elected Congressman from his Wisconsin district, he went to Washington full of ambition and high ideals. Poor, unmarried, a farmer, he had lived a progressive but black-&-white life, and as a Congressman expected to do the same on a grander scale. In Washington he was seen with the wrong people, got off to a bad start. His ambition found little outlet on the Committee on the Disposition of Useless Executive Papers. Then he met Senator Miller's wife, beautiful, socially powerful, a teaser. Congressman Carson had left a girl...
...grandest deliberate advertising stunt, grander than the Prince of Wales' warship jaunts to the U. S. and his Dominions, ended at Friedrichshafen last week, when the Graf Zeppelin snuggled into her home schuppen (hangar). "Speaking frankly," said Dr. Hugo Eckener (in Manhattan last week), "the Graf Zeppelin's voyage around the world was to demonstrate the expediency of her mode of travel, to intensify public interest and to get financial support for the construction of the ideal Zeppelin which we know how to build." The trip served its purpose. It led last week to banker negotiations to provide Dr. Eckener...
...General Motors and Walter P. Chrysler, head of Chrysler Motors. This quartet was credited with the planning of an Investment Trust with a capital of from $500,000,000 to $700,000,000, formed to operate exclusively in automobile securities. Upon this automotive rumor was built an even grander story of a billion-dollar trust, backed by Mr. Cutten and his associates, and entering many key industries with a specialized investment trust for each. Thus, Petroleum Corp. would be the oil section and the proposed motor trust the automobile section of a "circular" trust in many fields and on gigantic...
...sired by a god, fecundated the unsuspecting Derco, much to her chagrin. Her temple was burned; her worshippers vowed they had suffered enough of her whims, and would choose themselves "a grave and reasonable man-god." Such is the pliability of human nature, that they soon built her a grander temple, while they chanted that virginity is silly anyway. Linus married the offspring that had caused the disturbance. "Little she knew then or afterwards, that Linus was her own father. And- strange are the ways of half-gods-little would she have cared, had she known it." For, blissfully mated...