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Sirs: The enclosed footnote- appeared in TIME, April 11, giving credit to Senator Borah, as an apt phrase maker. Senator Borah is everything you claim for him, and I have the highest regard for the Senator and his work. However, there is a question as to the particular phrase which you have credited him with making. On Nov. 28, 1921, I attended a meeting addressed by Mr. William Jennings Bryan, at which he said he was asked by Mr. Barrett to give to the Pan-American Building, in Washington, a photograph of himself, and, a sentiment to go with...
...Alfred J. Brosseau, who was known to women as the retiring President General of the D. A. R. and to men as the wife of the maker of Mack trucks, sounded a warning to U. S. womanhood...
...standardized] motor boat industry has grown enormously. ... Over there [Europe] the motor boat is now just what it was with us 10 or 15 years ago-a built-to-order boat." Mr. Dodge sells his motor boats as though they were motor cars, as does Gar Wood, another famed maker of runabout (Baby Gar) craft. Dodge boats range in price between $2,195 and $7,200; Baby Gars between...
...potent Mr. PPP, turned suddenly, in the current issue of his Forbes magazine, and railed -against Henry Ford. By quotations from suppositious, always unnamed "authorities," by innuendoes and by skilled selection of facts he presumed to prove hat Henry Ford is decaying as a maker of motor cars. And he illustrated the article with a caricature of Mr. Ford "shown dressed as a gentleman of 1860 driving a typical vehicle of that period." The "Henry Ford" of the picture has a big ear, sidewhiskers, mustache, horseteeth, a head far too large for his high hat, and braided pants. Excerpts from...
George W. ("Penny-a-Pound Profit") Loft, candy maker, horse-racer, onetime member of the House of Representatives, last week became a banker by a fluke...