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...assembly plant a Fairgoer may order his Chevrolet in the morning, see it put together during the day, drive off in it at evening. He may watch Firestone turn crude rubber and chemicals into finished automobile tires, one every ten minutes. Phoenix Hosiery will show women how silk stockings are woven. Quaker Oats Co. will steam, roll, pack 100 cases of breakfast food per hour. Only inactive spot will be the airy, peaceful TIME-FORTUNE building, carefully designed as "A Place to Sit Down" and containing the world's biggest rack of current periodicals...
...dislikes society and ceremony but has had to get used to them in his present job. Tall, long of face and nose, at 65 he is slightly stooped and his grey hair is thinning. His brown eyes twinkle benignly through horn-rimmed pince-nez swung from a black silk ribbon. He picks his suits carefully and well, wears them neatly pressed and with ties more harmonious than Brother Charley...
...called for Al Smith for Mayor. For President of the Board of Aldermen he named Socialist Norman Thomas. For New York District Attorney he proposed Frederic René ("Fritz") Coudert Jr., smooth young Republican from the silk-stocking district. He resurrected onetime Mayor John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan for Borough President of Queens and balanced him with Louis Waldman, New York State Socialist chairman, for Borough President of The Bronx. Mayor O'Brien was tactfully reserved his old job as Surrogate...
...could not. Charley O held on going to the second turn but could not overtake the leader. It was then that the crowd of 40,000 saw the shaping of the most exciting Kentucky Derby finish that anyone could remember. A dark brown horse with a jockey in white silk with green hoops had cut in ahead of the field as they turned into the stretch and was gaining on Charley 0 and Head Play. The dark brown horse was Broker...
...bladder trouble in Keio University Hospital in Tokyo. According to the Japanese law his body was washed and prepared for cremation. But not his white plume, not his badge of honor. To his death bed came his son and reverently clipped the mustaches away. They were bound with white silk, laid on a satin cushion in a separate casket and buried with all honor in a separate burial mound...