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...word "Religion" in the case of missionary faiths implies the existence of a certain master, who stands between God (the Universal Father) and humanity, as the only go-between. His teachings make up a code of injunctions. These are divinely revealed and as such are sacred. It is sacrilegious to doubt these teachings and their exponent. There is no philosophic scrutiny permitted in the realm of religion, unless one is prepared to be called a "Radical". It is pure faith to the last degree of simplicity. It grants a monopoly of leadership to one, known as a prophet. Hindudharma...
William Harrison (Jack) Dempsey, champion pugilist: "Under my signature in the Hearst press, I said: 'Of the "Big Three"-Firpo, Gibbons and Wills-I regard Wills as the least difficult to master...
...Hearst's full page blurbs : " 'Mother Prudence,' 'Aunt Prudence,' 'Sister Prudence' they call her. She is all that and more." She is a walking dictionary, a "Confidanté of thousands," an expert in all the household arts, past master in how to keep husbands, children and a figure. In short she is an institution through which Mr. Hearst dispenses good advice, human kindness, and valuable aid in exchange for the good will of prospective newspaper buyers...
...Year prophets have come and gone. And the average business man is now trying to summarize their messages, and find out what they said. First, he finds that financial as well as other doctors disagree; second, that when such messages from the master minds of Business really say anything, it is apt to be limited to the district or business in which the particular master mind is preeminent...
General Atterbury, except during his service with the A. E. F. in France, has been connected with the Pennsylvania ever since he was graduated from Yale in 1886. He began as apprentice in the Altoona, Pa., shops, became road foreman, assistant engineer, master mechanic, general superintendent of motive power, general manager, Vice President...