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...York was the plume in the Wet Athene's helmet last week. He cried: "Senator Fess . . . cannot see what is going on in this country. Tears dim his sight. . . . Does the Senator think we can carry Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois and a half-dozen other States whose people spoke last week on this question . . . [and] hope to cajole repeal-Republicans, millions of good men & women, into an attitude of complacency concerning the thing they regard as vital...
...Department of Agriculture entomologists last week zealously bred two of the more than 30,000 kinds of known flies.* The entomologists were laboring at the instance of Dr. William Stevenson Baer of Baltimore. Dr. Baer, is clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at Johns Hopkins and orthopedic surgeon of a half-dozen Baltimore hospitals...
...upper Manhattan. Seven years ago Mrs. Knubel died. After two years' grief he married Jennie C. Christ of Manhattan. Presidency of the United Lutheran Church caused him to drop pastorate. Now he commutes daily from his New Rochelle home to his Manhattan office off Fifth Avenue, whither the half-dozen religious organizations of which he is a trustee or officer go for counsel...
...June 30) the New York Evening Graphic, sexy Bernarr Macfadden tabloid, last week began a daily feature by wisecracking Nightclub Hostess Mary Louise Cecilia ("Texas") Guinan.- Headed "Texas Guinan Says" the article is typographically arranged much like "Calvin Coolidge Says" which serious newspapers buy from McClure Newspaper Syndicate. First half-dozen articles were typically in the heavy-handed Guinan manner, supporting her insistence that she was writing every word, employing no "ghost." Excerpts: "Well, Cal, they've got me doing it now. . . . We can work together all right. You preach thrift and economy and when your readers have saved...
...William Crapo Durant put together a half-dozen automobile companies, called them General Motors Co. of New Jersey. Three years later he was ousted from control. He immediately formed Chevrolet Company and by May 1916 was able to tell G. M. directors that once again he was in control. Five years later he was forced to tender his resignation. The greatest bull since Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt was broke and jobless...