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...Rich men's sons, poor men's sons, working side by side, digging, planting, grubbing. Fat boys, thin boys, tall boys, short boys, handsome boys with curly hair, ugly lads with straight and greasy locks. Boys with spectacles, men dressed in warm, snug clothes. Men dressed in torn and ragged sweaters and trousers. Ex-clerks, ex-newsboys, ex-factory workers, ex-jobbers. I quote from this C. O.'s speech. "Men . . . you are now making history. . . . You are part of a great army, an army of peace and labor. You are going to be sent out into...
...girl, only 18, struck a few feet from the men. Most of her teeth were knocked out. Chunks of flesh were torn from her face. Her pelvis was shattered. The sharp end of a broken bone stuck out of her thigh...
...mile automobile trip taken to show his grandson the country, old (77), shaggy-bearded Leonor Fresnel Loree, canny president of Delaware & Hudson, reported Iowa corn and wheat "beautiful," U. S. businessmen "anti-Administration," U. S. railroads burdened with 90,000 miles of track which ought to be torn up. Said Railroader Loree, who thinks all passenger traffic a nuisance: "I do not feel discouraged about the railroad business. . . . The short-haul business has never paid us. Why should we fuss about...
...traces event after event which slowly and inexorably sucked the greatest democracy on earth into the earth's greatest malestrom. He spares no one; he has no respect for war-time idols, for figureheads thrown up by the War and still maintained in an anomalous position by a public torn between sentiment and disillusionment...
...vocation, except for the fact that reporters stubbornly dis dain so practical an accomplishment as photography. Jack Price's trade, how ever, is now further than ever from extinction, because newspaper publishers have discovered that news pictures help circulation and enormously improve their newspapers' appearance. Torn two ways by its journalist's contempt for photography and its publisher's interest in photography, Editor & Publisher has studiously ignored news photography for many a long year. Last week it turned its head, opened its eyes, began a regular weekly column on news photography called "Eyes of the Press...