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...Panama American, 1931-32, and have the distinction of being one of the few persons to leave Rambling Rounsevell's service without being fired. "N. R." in my opinion is the most fearless and independent living publisher. He started the P. A. practically on a shoe-string and has overcome opposition that few publishers have ever been forced to contend with. . . . "N. R." . . . has shown an utter disdain for advertisers. His favorite expression, when confronted by me with the announcement that he was losing business because of attacks he made on our best advertisers, was "to hell with them...
...lack human plasticity. But no one familiar with him ever denied that he has a keen mind and is capable of at least one passion, that of anger. Ever since he left the White House two years and seven months ago, he has been nursing a pair of first-string grudges: against the personality and policies of the man who defeated him and against those in his own party who regard him as a discredited liability. Last week came a golden opportunity to flay the former, assert his titular party leadership to the latter when Young Republicans from eleven Western...
...trouble with its legislators and public utilities commissioners. It bumped into trouble eight years ago, however, when it set out to run a high-tension line through a colony of Poles at Scotch Plains. Some Poles squeezed fancy prices from P. S. C. for their land or permission to string wires across it. But one of them, a small truck gardener and U. S. Army veteran named John Crempa, was against the wires at any price. One crisp morning last week some 2,000 of his neighbors and their fellow Poles from nearby cities swarmed to John Crempa...
First of a string of witnesses whose testimony should last at least six weeks was Fanchon & Marco's President Harry C. Arthur who said that Warner Brothers had "declared war" on Fanchon & Marco on March...
...first string backfield is one of the most powerful was here in many a year. Most prominent of the four is Buich besten, a stripling of come 156 pounds, who runs, kicks, and passes with equal case. Besten is the weighty member of the quartet which slop includes Brooks, Lapien, and Anoty Harding, whose pace scored the Harvard touchdown on Saturday...