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Lifting up his voice in Newark, N.J., Nominee Hoover addressed himself to Labor, including "the woman who stays at home as the guardian of the welfare of the family. She is a partner on the job and the wages...
...Astier came only to convert her wealth to the Church; and d'Orobelli to glean some gossip of Annie Spragg. Maundering, inaccurate, patronizing, Mrs. Weatherby said Annie had lived with her fanatic preacher brother at the edge of Winnebago Falls-her only companion a Hack goat, partner in her devilish Bacchanalian dances. That her father had been Cyrus Spragg, "the Prophet" in Illinois of a garish religion founded upon his own splendid sexual virility, Mrs. Weatherby preferred not to mention for reasons...
...condition of the will: to his daughter Lillian Luttrell he leaves the fortune, providing she marries Samuel Levi, his associate moneylender. Should she refuse to marry Levi, the fortune goes to Levi. Should he refuse to marry her, the fortune goes to her. Knowing not her father's partner, she was amazed to find him a suave, handsome young Jew, not the portly, oppressive person she pictured. Marriage seemed not impossible. But Samuel loved his cousin Rachel, lovely Semite; Lillian loved Captain Yarborough. The solution of these vexing problems is not in the tawdry fashion of Anne Nichols. Though...
...Daniel Huntington, painters of highly unequal merit, were accustomed to use their brushes, as though they had been valets' whiskbrooms, upon the handsome exteriors of fashionable people in Manhattan and elsewhere. Knoedler's Gallery is largely responsible for the change. Since the time when its senior partner began to import the work of foreign celebrities, native workmanship became less socially desirable. U. S. persons, having arrived at the pinnacle of pretension which permits them to order portraits, would prefer to have themselves painted by a portrayer of dukes or princes. Hence U. S. portraitists, able though they...
With Anaconda rose another mighty copperman, John D. Ryan. Copperman Ryan had been store clerk, drummer, oilman. He did business with Marcus Daly, and when Daly died, young Ryan took over his interests. Then Rockefeller-partner Henry H. Rogers invited him to take charge of Amalgamated Copper in Montana, then in the midst of the dispute with Heinze. In 1908, Rogers died and Ryan became president of Amalgamated. In 1910, it merged with Anaconda...