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Vladimir Ilich Lenin bathed, personally, in blood as seldom as he could. When it became necessary to sign death warrants by the thousands and eventually by the tens of thousands, that task was passed on to Felix E. Dzerzhinsky, a Pole, the son of a little almost-bourgeois nobleman, the man whom Russian émigrés christened in sheer terror, "The Black Pope of Bolshevism." Last week he died in Moscow (of overwork...
Nevertheless, two perfectly normal gentlemen, seldom known to do the exotic, started off last week on a Southern automobile trip. One was Speaker Nicholas Longworth, big-chested, blushing, back-slapping Republican leader of the House, natty Presidential hopeful. His gasoline buddy was C. Bascom Slemp, of Virginia, "gleaner and harvester of Southern delegations to Republican National Conventions...
...means, all asleep. Some worked on night shifts in the factories along foul Nimisillen Creek, making hardware, engines, safes, varnish, cutlery, paving bricks, structural steel. Some of them drained another, and then another and another glass in Canton's plentiful blind-pigs. People in bawdy-houses are seldom all asleep by 12:30, and last January 108 such houses flourished in Canton's three tougher sections, "The Badlands," "The Hole," and "Whiskey Centre." Gunmen and lords of the underworld are not asleep just after midnight. Instead that hour is the dawn of their working day. Many of these...
...Like many another personage, Mrs. Ford seldom permits herself to be photographed. The above, snapped in 1923, is perhaps the clearest idea of her countenance available to the reading public. Commercial picture-dealers declare that they have never obtained pictures of the heirs to the Ford fortune, Edsel's son and daughter, barring one reproduction of a group painted in oils. Doubtless Edsel Ford, and many another father whose eminence draws upon his family the curious eyes of the world, has often said to news photographers something similar to John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s reported remark of last...
...Cyrus Jr., or her husband, paid $7,037 for the ride. Mrs. McCormick, the only passenger, traveled with a full train crew. She tipped the Pullman conductor $50, the porter $30, a passenger agent $50. And that was all there was to that, except that a lone lady seldom hires a special train, as she would a taxicab, and the newspapers simply had to tell about it. There must be some mysterious attraction in Chicago to necessitate such a gesture. No, said the McCormicks, there was nothing mysterious at all; no illness, marriage, divorce, or other sensation...