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...season sales. ... It will also provide money which may be loaned to any of our employes who may be temporarily laid off. ... Workers who need their wages in winter months will be given more steady employment through that dull period. . . . We do not regard this as a philanthropic move nor do we have any intention of indulging in any crack-brained theories. It is simply a matter of good business." General Tire & Rubber Co., fifth in its industry,* is the personal creation of President O'Neil. Born in Akron of substantial Irish-Catholic parentage, he went to Holy Cross...
...York State Athletic Commission started something last fortnight which may move boxing westward from the eastern seaboard. Dogmatic and irascible Big Jim Farley, chairman, started the Commission. The Commission had given Max Schmeling his tit's when Sharkey fouled him last June, stipulating then that he must sign within nine months to meet an opponent picked by them. They picked Jack Sharkey, ordered Schmeling, through his manager and proxy, Joe Jacobs, to sign with Sharkey at once or forfeit his title. Jacobs suggested that the Commission arrange for Sharkey to fight Stribling, the winner to meet Schmeling. Both fights...
...school at 60. This is as true in the rarefied upper realms of business as anywhere else. The younger man who manages to attain to some showy second or third rank among financiers and businessmen is so remarkable that the cheer leaders of low literature . . . and the sob sisters move down upon his abode in echelon formation. ... In the arts the matter is notorious. There are young geniuses and child prodigies, who are admired like the aardvark and the Ornithorhynchus paradoxus, but all the solid and enduring work is done by men who have lived long enough to have mastered...
Although the majority of the 11 commissioners who drew up the report agreed with Dean Pound in his move for moderation, nevertheless the two who advocated repeal, the two in favor of further trial, and the three champions (including Chairman G. W. Wickersham) of stricter enforcement, succeeded in forcing a compromise which advocated essentially no change whatever...
...survive the next great war, perhaps principally on account of the consequent revolutionary chaos in which the West will be submerged." Major Bratt's prophetic descriptions of future strategy are arresting. The massive infantry armies of the last War are already obsolete, he thinks. Infantry of the future will move in smaller units, made more mobile by rapid motor transport. But the most significant new development was foreshadowed in the Allied campaign of 1919? planned but never executed: an attack from the air on Germany's industrial centres. Supremacy in the air, says Major Bratt, will decide the issue...