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...prophet is no obscure, senile wiseacre; he is Arthur Brisbane, able journalist. A machine invented by Thomas Alva Edison listens attentively to Mr. Brisbane's remarks; a respectful secretary transcribes his master's voice into typewritten copy; and the New York American, the Chicago Herald-Examiner, the San Francisco Examiner and many another newspaper owned by Publisher Hearst, to say nothing of some 200 non-Hearst dailies and 800 country weeklies which buy syndicated Brisbane, all publish what Mr. Brisbane has said. His column is headed, with simple finality, "Today," a column that vies with the weather...
...children: Ada, Bob, Lil, Anna, Hannah, Otto. They could call Mr. Planalp "Pop," one jester added. . . . Manhattanites reflected that Mr. Planalp should some day call on James Leffel of 39 Courtland Street, their city; Philadelphians took satisfaction from the 16 double-actioned Reber families listed in their telephone book; San Francisco was complacent with six taxpayers named Renner. . . . Children quoted out of copybooks a statement they are taught to believe was first addressed to Eve: "Madam, I'm Adam...
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...Boss" Brennan occasionally takes a little time off from poker, pinochle, politics, and business to read good books. It was in 1920 that this pinky-bald, bushy-eyebrowed, double- chinned, portly humorist first began to be a source of power and worry to the Democratic national party. At the San Francisco con vention he vexed William G. McAdoo, helped nominate James M. Cox and forced the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt on the ticket. People asked, "Who is this man Brennan who deals with mighty names?" They couldn't find his history...
...arsenal at lona Island, a mile away. Perhaps Manhattan citizens tremble as they recall the terrors of Dover if they know about the arsenal at nearby Sandy Hook. Other death dealing overstocked plants include the arsenals near Pittsburgh, Springfield, Mass., Augusta, Fort Monroe, Va., Philadelphia, Rock Island, Watertown, Mass., San Antonio and many another town...