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Since he acted as an intermediary without disciplinary authority, his office was largely what he himself wanted to make it, and he considered it a roving commission to pour oil on troubled waters...
Given to the successful, contestant in an annual declamation in French to be known as the "Concours oratoire pour la Medaille France-Amerique." The subject of the declamation will be drawn from the history of French civilization. Due notice will be given of the time of the competition, and information regarding the rules governing it may be obtained from Professor L. J. A. Mercier. Modal...
Edgar Davis went back to Texas to drill for more oil. Out of his immense wallet money continued to pour-$1,000,000 for charity in Brockton, $1,000,000 for a land experiment station at Luling, $1,000,000 in bonuses for his employes, $10,000 for the best painting of a Texas wildflower. According to Edgar Davis' theosophic conception of things, Divine Providence had led him to money and it was his holy duty to spend it. But after the failure of The Ladder the Davis successes grew fewer. His North & South Development Co. continued to wildcat...
...this is bitter book. Mr. Millis is unable to attribute any higher motives to the Allied than to the German cause. Consequently he is unable to do otherwise than pour scorn on Ambassador Page in London; on Colonel House in his peregrinations amongst the struggling nations; on Leonard Wood who, he alleges, had sat at the feet of von Tripitz, and had devoted himeslf, long before the outbreak of the European War, to the upbuilding of an American militarism by the same modern and realistic methods wherewith the German had so brilliantly and disastrously succeeded, on Theodore Roosevelt--all Anglophiles...
Soon money began to pour into Walter Sheaffer's ink-stained hands. His crowning achievement was an $8.75 Lifetime pen, introduced in 1921. It was the first standard high-priced fountain pen launched on what had always been a low-priced market. Next Walter Sheaffer streamlined his pens. Then in quick succession he introduced the Sheaffer desk set with universal socket (which seals the tip of the pen and keeps it moist), the Feathertouch nib, the special Sheaffer pencil which "propels, repels and expels the lead," the Sheaffer Vacuum-Fil pen. By 1929 the company's gross sales...