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...Davis puddled along in Sharon, Pa., and in Birmingham, Ala.; then he went to work in the tin-plate mill of William B. Leeds and Daniel G. Reid at Elwood, Ind. Three things began to happen to him in this town of 1,500 souls: 1) He became wealthy: his pay at the tin mill was good; he saved money; he backed his good and enterprising friends in activities from oil speculation to running newspapers; later he became an investment banker in Pittsburgh. 2) He became a member of the Loyal Order of Moose. There have been loyal Moose before...
...staff; not only as editrixes of sob columns, advice to the socially incompetent, fashion pages and society notes, but also as literary and dramatic critics, cartoonists, humorists and "straight" news reporters like Mrs. Reporter Adams. These daughters of journalism ask no favors and receive none because they happen to wear skirts instead of trousers.; nor do they waste time and energy arguing womanhood for womanhood's sake...
Sharing public interest with the possibility that a professional baseball game was thrown eight years ago is the present fact that something of importance is going to happen in Nicaragua. It is not easy to discover what that something...
...Woods' appointment seems to be tangled up with everything that has happened in Pennsylvania politics from the spring of 1926 to what will happen in the spring of 1928. Even the rock-ribbed Republican New York Herald Tribune supplied the following comment in its news columns last week: "It is declared that the real reason why he has been selected for the Interstate Commerce Commission is that the Mellon forces in Pennsylvania have set out to control the Pennsylvania delegation in 1928 for President Coolidge and that Mr. Woods, in this influential Federal post, will be in a situation...
...past autumn) into the hands of editors callow and ribald, is neither unusual nor significant. The Lampoon's coarse insults to Princeton, subsequent inept apologies and yet more recent displays of awkwardness in prose, verse and cartoon, were simply the sort of thing that can happen in undergraduate journalism-a parallel to the miserable football team that often afflicts a college just after it has won a championship...