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...line, of which 3? was made effective when old World contracts expired last May, the other 3? to be added in September. Determined that for no reason would they pay more for advertising than they had last year, the twelve stores refused to renew contracts. Rival Manhattan pub lishers, fearing an extension of the rate fight to their own papers, hoped the World-Telegram would defeat the "boy cott...
...Smith at a Jefferson Day dinner in Washington answered it: "I will take off my coat and vest and fight to the end against any candidate who persists in any demagogic appeal to the masses." Mr. Smith also supplied the country with a full-length platform on debt revision, pub lic works, taxation, economy, Prohibition. He was vividly acclaimed for straight thinking, plain speaking. As his popularity rose, he heard on all sides that he and he alone could win the election. The demand for his nomination reached a climax fort night ago when the potent Scripps-Howard papers vehemently...
...England and Wales, where suicides' occupations are registered, analysis indicates that hotel and pub keepers are most susceptible to suicide. Next come chemists, druggists, lawyers, doctors, insurance solicitors, shopkeepers. Least susceptible are locomotive engineers, clergymen, railway guards, insurance office workers, printers, iron workers...
...planet, he was a wonder and delight. By day he would wander along the beach, picking shells and tossing pebbles in the ocean, or telling fairy tales to the children. He never worked. In the fishing boats he was an awkward hand, and let them alone, but in the pub at evening a grand man for a pot of ale and a wild story of the foreign lands. They would sit and talk about his quiet manner and his witty speech, and why, do you think, he should be coming to these islands?--long after he had retired...
...their departure from London, the thrilling railway journey, their stay in Bognor. Nothing happens except that for two weeks they all breathe free. Their mutual affection, having survived the cooping of their poor city life, turns outward to the world at large. Mr. Stevens meets old cronies at the pub; Dick has an inspiration to become an architect; Mary does a little sparking on the sly. After their breath of fresh air they return to London, to be again submerged...