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...eyes picked out such phrases in the baskets of telegrams which flooded the White House the day after his acceptance speech (see col. 3). Henry Ford wired: ''Your fire in the Lincoln Court House is still burning and this morning I added a log to it." Clarence Mott Woolley (American Radiator) reported from New York: "Two Wall Street men, the elevator boy at my hotel, the taxicab driver, the elevator boy in the office building are now enthusiastic supporters." Walter P. Chrysler telegraphed: "Most effective, forceful and frank. No one can have any doubt where you stand...
...Nick, the 800-lb. blue gnu in Detroit's zoological park, is a bad actor. He has killed one of his mates, two of their calves. Last week Big Nick was in another bad humor: his new mate had just presented him with another calf. Gus Mott, 63-year-old farmer turned zookeeper, feared Big Nick less than he feared the big ostrich hen that lived in the next pen. One day last week the ostrich turned on Keeper Mott, raised her horny foot to strike. Keeper Mott ran, vaulted the wall, landed on hands & knees in the gnus...
Next day Keeper Mott died of his wounds. He was the second zookeeper killed at work this month. Last fortnight, Sunshine, the Russian brown bear in Cleveland's zoo, slew Keeper Thomas Earl (TIME, July 18). For his crime. Sunshine was shot to death. Because blue gnus are rare & costly, murderous Big Nick was not killed, but sentenced to isolation for life...
John Raleigh Mott, president of the World's Alliance of Y. M. C. A. and executive committee member of the Allied Forces for Prohibition, long a friend and beneficiary of the Rockefeller family, was in Scotland when he heard the news. Promptly he. too, plumped for Prohibition reform. While opposed to outright repeal, he favored a non-political national referendum. Another prominent Prohibitionist, Stanley High, who quit managing editing the Christian Herald to found a Dry daily in Manhattan (not yet founded) believed that it was time "for the Drys to re-examine their case." Month before...
Died. Harvey Joshua Hill, 51, famed campaign director for the Red Cross; of heart disease; in White Plains, N. Y. He worked with Ivy Ledbetter Lee to raise $123,000,000 and $117,000,000 for Red Cross War funds; with Bruce Barton. Dr. John Raleigh Mott and the late Cardinal Gibbons on a drive for $212,000,000 for the United War Work Appeal...