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After the National Cash Register deal, newspaper men found him puffing an old black pipe and talking about "team work." "All of us are cogs in a great machine. . . . There can be no leadership in modern enterprises-they are too big. In board meeting I don't sit at the head of the table. I sit anywhere. . . . Money? What is there to it? ... After man's material wants are satisfied all that remains to the making of money is the power to accomplish something for the common good...
...Keep the cans out of the sun in summer and away from steam pipe-and stoves in winter. Don't allow the water to freeze...
Perhaps the strangest of all gifts of three night wanderers to a child born on a Christmas Eve, are the cup, the pipe, and the kiss of "The Three Wise Men", by Jean Dumaux. Perhaps the strangest of all tellings of the old story, very gently, very gravely, very beautifully! Tramps in the night, a lonely barn, a refuge, a man and "the skirt", and a new born babe! Of these the story that every one knows is told, the story that every one knows by heart and in his heart...
...strike selenium plates, setting up vibrations which are "amplified" as on a radio. When Inventor Grindell-Matthews placed his hand over one of the lights, a note was deadened; when all the lights were covered, all sounds ceased. The instrument has a tone like that of a little pipe-organ...
...surface miracle would blind no one to the fact that this closer cementing of European powers has been accomplished to the accompaniment of a feeling among the assembled diplomats that "We'll show America now." Pan-Europe, as this writer calls the new tendency, may be only his personal pipe-dream; if there was enough anti-American sentiment at Locarno, however, to afford his pipe-dream a foundation, he shows the United States the grave extent of the attitude into which Europe has been falling more and more since...