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...rated at .07 of 1%. The chewing gum industry's output is twice as valuable as silver mining. Silver though supported, productionwise is only as important as grape jelly, or wire nails, or packers' prime tallow, or anhydrous ammonia. Silver is less important than linoleum, glue, leather gloves, strawberries, spaghetti, nuts...
...Senate is used to the silver situation, not to say bored by it. Yet last week a Senatorial Lone Ranger once more took the trail of the wild-riding, hell-for-leather Silver Bloc, grimly determined to stop the Treasury raids. Ordinarily, big, easygoing Senator John Gillis Townsend of Delaware is no Lone Ranger. Gregarious John Townsend, whose head looks like a snowball bush in full bloom, is solidly Republican, completely acceptable to Delaware's Du Pont dynasty. Annually he 1) presents gallery newsmen and the Senate with all the sweet-tart spring strawberries they can eat, 2) gets...
...very happy, leaning back into the cool comfort of the deep leather chair and listening to the four musicians, seated at one end of the intimate little room, playing the music he loved. He felt clean and invigorated when he heard the Bach which seemed like precise and classically perfect exercises in counterpoint. He smiled an inane smile of satisfaction and pleasure as the rich beauty of Beethoven filled his entire body with a feeling of quietly sensual pleasure. And being so extremely comfortable, he mused in a slow and comfortable manner...
...mission-oak library tables were without a limp leather volume from Elbert Hubbard's Roycroft Shops in East Aurora, N. Y., which also flooded the land with such objets d'art as hammered copper book ends, goatskin table covers, leather pillows, mattresses, mission furniture, ferneries. As inventor of signed ads for Big Business, Fra Elbertus reached most millions of all. Sometimes he was called a combination of a dozen geniuses including Benjamin Franklin, Victor Hugo, Emerson and William Morris; other times, a combination of P. T. Barnum, Robert G. Ingersoll, Henry Ward Beecher...
...part fact, three parts fancy). Biblical inspiration coined such popular aphorisms as "Blessed is the man who does not bellyache." Emulating William Morris' idealistic experiment in fine books and hand craftsmanship, Hubbard founded the Roycroft Shops. His brand of Guild Socialism consisted of turning out rococo limp-leather-bound reprints selling from $2 to $250 ("not how cheap, but how good"), together with his glorified soap premiums in handicraft...