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...still has plenty of timekeeping talent in the person of President Ralph H. Matthiessen, scion of the other GTI clock family. The first clock-making Matthiessen was a German immigrant with a Heidelberg education who made good with a zinc smelter in La Salle, Ill. He had an idea that clocks could be soldered together instead of riveted, at a great saving. In 1885 he founded Western Clock Co. near his smelter. His competitors called his Westclox line "lead clocks," but they sold faster & faster, and in 1910 Western made clock history by pricing...
...rectify this unfavorable trade balance against U. S. talent, the Immigration Committee was considering a bill which would require all foreign actors, singers, and orchestra conductors except those of "distinguished merit," to secure special permission from the Department of Labor before being allowed to work in the U. S. The merit qualification was what brought the Guild to Washington. Also no mention had been made of solo instrumentalists and dancers. The Guild wanted to put all foreign artists through the Department of Labor's strainer. "You have taken care of those in the bush leagues," complained Tenor Charles Hackett...
...press that he hated praised John Reed now that he was dead. Friends stopped each other on the street and talked about him. To the students of English 12, Copey, cursing the Bolsheviki, praised the courage and loyalty of his Jack Reed. There were many who talked about wasted talent, and some whose pat phrases concealed relief. But in Atlanta and Leavenworth, in Sing Sing and Cook County Jail, in hundreds of prisons, and in the hiding-places of an outlawed Communist movement, men shut their jaws tight...
...revolt in the desert, Allenby ran off his climactic campaign in the autumn of 1918. On the actual field of Armageddon, dread coastal plain where St. John the Divine predicted "thunders and lightnings . . . a great earthquake . . . a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent," Allenby fought his greatest battle, won his title, feinting at the Turks' centre with cavalry, rolling up their right with infantry. With the fall of Aleppo and Damascus, the Central Powers were cut off from their allies in the Near East...
...picked up everything he knew from cafe talk in Paris. The problem of style had never occurred to him before he met Yeats; their collaboration was "unmixed misfortune for Moore, it set him upon a pursuit of style that made barren his later years." And Moore misunderstood his talent in other ways. He prided himself on his discerning palate. A tricky friend, dining with him in a restaurant, found the soup particularly good but slyly said to Moore: "Do you mean to say you are going to drink that?" Moore tasted it, called the waiter in high dudgeon, made...