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...great many people who can afford $100 . . . $50 . . . $10 ... $5. I am quite willing to bear my full share. Countless letters come to me . . . which contain requests for printed copies of the speeches made by me during the last campaign. I have decided I would forego any profit from such a book. The Democratic National Committee has accepted my offer and will present, with my compliments, a nicely bound copy of all of my campaign speeches . . . to anybody contributing $2 or more...
...industry he has stood for high wages, profit sharing with employes (in this he was a leader long before it received general publicity) and high standards of living. He believes in and sets an example of hard work. He also believes in vacations, saying that a man who works twelve months does only eight months' work. As for getting ahead in the world, his maxim is: "Roasted pigeons don't fly into a man's mouth...
...money earned from the sponges pays for the cost of sending out the boats. The profit is divided between sailors and divers. Divers get more because they risk their lives. There are octipi, sharks. But diving for sponges is lucrative. During 1927 the valuation of the sponge catch at Tarpon Springs was $886,216. The figures for 1928, not yet compiled, will show an increase...
...family, he married his sweetheart, Lottie Kaufman, in the Temple, and shortly afterward quit furs and bought a penny arcade in Manhattan. Later, when he had shown a profit running "Hale's Tours," one of William A. Brady's projects, he went home to Ricse for a visit and was received by the Mayor and the Town Council...
...inspires the grand march with the prom chairman and the lucky girl at its head in a confetti setting is not transferrable to Memorial Hall. The happy solution of the problem would be for the blaise Juniors to pass over their dance to the social Sophomores who might profit by early experience or carry on the Jubilee tradition throughout their college career...