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...court stenographer in Manhattan. At 23 he was acting as principal of a preparatory school. Entering the service of the state through a minor post-office job, he somehow became stenographer to President Cleveland in his 33rd year. President McKinley made him his Assistant Secretary. President Roosevelt appointed him the first Secretary in his newly created Department of Commerce and Labor. Two years later he became Postmaster General, and at the end of another two years he was appointed Secretary of the Treasury. During the latter part of his cabinet career, the great corporations which he now heads recognized...
News, like art, has never been adequately defined. Some understand it as the graphic record of a current event which is 1) unusual or 2) important. If a corporation president resigns his directorships to accept a job as bus boy, if a senator refuses to make a speech at a public dinner, if a revenue agent stops the sale of liquor ? that is news. Such news may be presented in as entertaining a fashion as possible. But there is another kind of news ? a narrative of events which have often occurred but must be recorded as a matter...
...pull itself together, with four games in the next week. Tonight it will try and prevent the number of defeats from balancing the victories. Coombs has definitely received the assignment at left guard for the present. It was thought that Barbee's superior physique would win him the job, but Coombs' speed has put him ahead of his heavier rival. Barbee will be a relief man for both Malick and Coombs...
Such an admission must delight many authors outraged by a cacophonous conjunction of insult bearing words. Perhaps it will take the sting from an evil-flavored review to know that the critic did not believe his published opinion. In order to hold his job, the reviewer must grind out comment which will command attention. And obviously the easiest method of inspiring interest is the satirical. All mankind from the village gossip to the astute politician is quite willing to hear evil of its neighbor, be he friend...
Every Saturday for the past ten-years I've climbed that tower too wind the machinery and I can tell you it's no easy job. There's a weight of about pounds which is at the end of a cable wound round a spool. When we wind the clock it means that the weight has to be lifted 100 feet. The bells are rung by a weight of 1500 pounds which has to be lifted the same height. As a rule it takes me nearly an hour to finish the job...