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...first tried his idea in partnership with another Catholic educator named Jesse Locke. But Locke and Hume (not to be confused with the 17th-and 18th-Century British philosophers) failed to hit it off. Then Nelson Hume met Catholic Capitalists Henry O. Havemeyer (railroads) and the late Clarence Mackay (Postal Telegraph), got an $8,000 stake to start his school. He named it for his baptismal saint, Edmund of Canterbury...
Alfred Harmsworth was 23 when he started his first paper, Answers to Correspondents, a gossipy, amusing weekly journal. It caught on with Britain's masses. Harold Harmsworth was then a 21-year-old postal clerk. Against his better judgment, he let Alfred persuade him to join Answers as business manager. Alfred had the editorial brains, Harold knew shillings & pence. In six years, from their profits, they were able to buy a struggling London daily, the Evening News, and put it on its feet. Then they founded the Daily Mail. In 1917 Alfred was created Viscount Northcliffe, two years later...
...hell!" The speech was over. Announcers again smoothly announced that not C. I. O. but the National Committee of Democrats-for-Willkie had put up the $45,000 for John Lewis' 30 minutes. Burly William Stevenson, a Detroit tool & die maker, handed a wire to a Postal Telegraph clerk: ". . . As far as we are concerned, you can go to hell." The clerk demurred; Mr. Stevenson reluctantly compromised on "go to Hades." C. I. O. autoworkers roared, cursed, rebelled. So did bigwigs in Mr. Lewis' mine union, in C. I. O. Vice President (and Defense Commissioner) Sidney Hillman...
...TIME salutes young and vigorous New Mexico. Wherever its new population comes from, it thrives as a community-its bank deposits, postal receipts, retail sales, gasoline taxes, car purchases, telephone installations, building permits ($2,689,000 last year in Albuquerque alone) are booming...
...like and give nothing to him you don't like." When the air is clear of customers, Felix confesses that he is a Republican but that he will vote for Roosevelt for the third time. He makes his stand clear by a simple illustration. "Look at these postal cards," he says. "You couldn't buy zem because you don't know how zey sell. You have to be experient. Beezness is same as government. You make mess of things if you are not experient." Felix feels that Roosevelt is the more "experient" candidate. But he wouldn't like...