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Hagen speared the fear-proof Siegfried in the back, Brünnhilde lit his funeral pyre, the fateful ring went back to the Rhine whence it had come, Valhalla, symbol of the gods' greed, flamed in the distance-and at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House the curtain went down last Week on Richard Wagner's Goötterdäammerunmg, ended a cycle of the Nibelungen Ring operas* which New Yorkers will long remember...
...First National Bank of Chicago. Banker Traylor's appointment would be satisfying to Kentucky where he was born in a log-cabin 54 years ago, to Texas where he got his start as a grocery clerk and smalltown banker and to Illinois where he reached, with dignity and without greed, the front rank of his vocation. A precedent in his favor: Lyman Judson Gage stepped out of the presidency of the First National to become McKinley's Secretary of the Treasury...
...left their old hunting grounds in Kansas for the Indian Territory, buffaloes were getting so scarce that government allowances and rations were welcome, and even their wild mourning dances did not always end in a war party, hungry for scalps. Between the noble savagery of the Osages and the greed of half-civilized whites nibbling at the Reservation's borders, Major Miles (all Indian Agents were automatically ''Major") had his hands full. The dice were loaded: "civilization" was bound to win. The quiet, unbitter history closes with Eagle That Dreams singing his chant to the rising...
...Committee on Moral & Social Welfare, should address itself to the following conditions: "racketeering, gambling, exploitations, bribery, profanity, dissipation, diseases, suicide, sex laxity, lawlessness; organized agencies within society which have in large sections been perverted; infidelity between husbands and wives, disloyalty between parents and children, undisciplined temperaments; racial prejudices: jealousies, greed, grudges between nationalities; the wrong attitude of class toward class in society; great wealth and luxury and abject poverty within sight of each other, but separated by an impassable gulf; leisure because of no need to work and enforced idleness because of no opportunity to work; the palace towering over...
...artist, Reporter Phillips scorned temperament, worked hard and methodically at the writing of his novels-with-a-purpose. His vigorous treatment of timely subjects-sins of society, political corruption, plutocratic greed-stirred controversy, made him a best seller. He had finished 20-odd books when one day in 1911 a crazed violinist named Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough. who imagined the novelist had pilloried his sister in a story, pumped six bullets into Phillips' chest, abruptly ended this life-with-a-purpose...