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From his publisher's standpoint Mr. Vivian Tidmarsh was hero of the day. Mr. Tidmarsh, subeditor on the Evening News, showed that his office had learned of Alice Puddifoot's vindication just in time to slip a few lines into the "stop-press" corner of the last edition. The Evening News got off with only one farthing damages...
...price of coal high enough they could pay Mr. Lewis' union workers all that he asked. And Mr. Lewis had seen that if the badly overexpanded coal industry could charge high prices, Labor could demand and get a slice of the profits. Only trouble was that from the standpoint of maintaining coal prices, the Soft Coal Code went to pieces some six months ago. Three weeks ago meeting in Washington miners and operators amicably agreed that: "the operators are in no position to make definite commitments for wages, hours and conditions of employment...
...Mexico City an hour later she was given a wild Latin reception by Government officials, some 20,000 shouting Mexicans and her ubiquitous husband George Palmer Putnam. More impressed by her reception than by her performance, Mrs. Putnam told newsmen: "From a pilot's standpoint the record was not very satisfactory...
From a utilitarian standpoint alone this policy is wise, since the University achieves immeasurable prestige from these quiet triumphs. A discovery such as that made recently by Professor Lake's expedition in the Sinai Peninsula, when the tomb of the Egyptian goddess Hathor was unearthed, brings to an institution of learning the credit to which its efforts entitle it. Present day science has reached the stage where much of the most vital work is done far from the cloistered museums and libraries. Like bread cast upon the waters, the support given Harvard to its globetrotting expeditions is repaying the University...
...statement was made that we were now ready to supply paper prints, whereas in the interview we stated that we expect to be able to supply paper prints in the near future, which you will realize is quite different when viewed 'from the reader's standpoint...