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...most railway executives. In their robustness the opinions are especially Kruttsehnittian. For Kruttschnitt is a man of the self-made type. He was the son of a New Orleans merchant ruined by the Civil War. Nevertheless he had a college education, at Washington and Lee University. His first railroad job was as an engineer building part of the line which is now the eastern end of the Southern Pacific. Today he is Chairman of the Road with a salary of $100,000 a year, ranking with Alfred H. Smith of the New York Central as one of the highest paid...
...Herbert Bayard Swope, Executive Editor of The New York World, led the editors, ejaculating: "One would think . . . that America lacked trained observers in Europe and elsewhere! Surely ... a false impression! All of the great American newspapers maintain groups of able correspondents abroad, who are thoroughly equipped to do the job, as best it can be done. . . . These writers are, primarily, collectors of facts. The interpretations placed upon their expositions are made by men schooled in that branch of journalism-editorial writers." The Detroit Free Press was drawn into a similar dispute by an assertion of The Manchester Guardian that...
...liberal college, states this most emphatically in an article which he contributes to the November number of Scribner's. According to him the liberal college will speak to its prospective students in some such terms as this: "What we teach you here will not assure you of a job when you leave us, or even add one dollar to your income. In lieu of material advantage we offer you the chance to make your mind hospitable to new ideas and tenacious of the good in human nature...
Obviously this new Stage Guild in Boston cannot do its job unless the desired public seeks the Peabody Playhouse even at a little inconvenience and, one by one, lays its dollar on the sill of the box-office. (For so modest and considerate is the price.) As obviously, the Guild cannot depend upon the ordinary playgoing public hereabouts. Otherwise, "regular" theatres would be housing "Ambush" and "March Hares" Little interested in so serious, sane, unselfish an undertaking are the highbrows by trademark. Encouragement in word, support in deed, must come from that younger public which would take its pleasure...
...story concerns two job-hunting damsels, Maggie Murphy of New York and Mary Jane McKane of Slab City. Mass, who under the expert guidance of Joe McGillicuddy, become employees of Andew Dunn, Sr., but more particularly of Andrew Dunn. Jr. After this purely business transaction has been consummated. Mary Jane has plenty of leisure to make the most outrageous love to Andy, interrupted by occasional raids of a reinforced chorus, or visits of "old Frosty". Mr. Dunn Senior's office manager. Likewise, Maggie uses her opportunities to wind the obliging Joe around an attractive little finger. In the end, Andy...