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Peering from behind thick-lensed spectacles, Nathan Leonard Amster. a Rumanian-born director of Manhattan Railway Co. ("The El") and head of a stockholders' committee, arrived late at the annual meeting last week. Behind him trouped 30 angry stockholders armed with stacks of proxies. Though a meeting chairman had already been elected, Director Amster promptly accused him of trying to "railroad" the meeting, deposed him and elected Lionel F. Straus, a New York tractioneer and one of his henchmen, to the chair. While election tellers squabbled loudly over the legality of proxies. Insurgent Director Amster listened gleefully to stockholders...
...loans provided two-thirds of the Hillside capital. The other one-third came from Starrett Bros. & Eken Inc., building contractors, and Nathan Straus Jr., who provided the land, an old farmsite on the Boston Post Road, at a fraction of its appraised value...
...wide columns. It carries no illustrations, thus far no advertising, sells for 10?. Its purpose: "... to offer a medium for the truly valuable and adventurous in thought." Its criteria: ''clarity, vigor, humor . . . real knowledge and a decided point of view." The idea was George Jean Nathan's. From his long experience with monthly magazines, notably Smart Set and American Mercury, he had found "that it is impossible to get enough good copy each month to fill. . . . [The editor] is only too happy, indeed, if he can get even so many as two things that really please...
...Editor Nathan first took his plan to O'Neill, for the first time in his life saw O'Neill get excited. Then he lined up the others. The editors are unsalaried, hold conferences in two uptown speakeasies, hope to have profits to share. Contributors are paid 1? a word...
...Walker's defense counsel in the ex-mayor's trial before Governor Roosevelt (TIME, Aug. 22 et seq.); a vitriolic attack on the Church and censorship in Ireland by Liam O'Flaherty; an objection to the prevalence of sexless leading women on the stage by Critic Nathan; an argument by Dreiser for control of adult population; articles by Eugene O'Neill, Clarence Darrow, James Branch Cabell, Louis Untermeyer, Joseph Wood Krutch...