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Last July, editors were in a quandary over a book called The President's Daughter, published and issued for review by an "Elizabeth Ann Guild, Inc." of Manhattan. The author, one Nan Britton, purported to have been infatuated since girlhood with her fellow townsman, the late President Harding. He was represented as having returned her devotion after she had grown up and he had become a U. S. Senator. He was said to have placed her in Manhattan with the U. S. Steel Corp. as a secretary, through his friend, the late Elbert H. Gary. The most intimate scenes, complete...
...gifts which they use to make money." He cited the case of a man employed by him whose salary had jumped from $25,000 to $150,000 and a percentage, in one year. "God has been good to that man," said Mr. Flint. Chicagoans recalled that last month their townsman, Julius Rosenwald, chairman of Sears, Roe- buck & Co., 115-millionaire, issued a statement on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Mr. Rosenwald said: "I was lucky, not a genius. With rare exceptions, the man who accumulates wealth displays no more genius than the prize-winner in any lottery...
...Philadelphia Chronicle printed this item: "It gives us pleasure to state that the locomotive engine built by our townsman, M. W. Baldwin, has proved highly successful. In the presence of several gentlemen of science and information on such subjects, the engine was yesterday placed upon the road for the first time. All her parts had been previously highly finished and fitted together in Mr. Baldwin's factory. She was taken apart on Tuesday, and removed to the Company's depot, and yesterday morning she was completely together, ready for travel. After the regular [horse-drawn] passenger cars...
...easily the peers of any written by these other men of a more cosmopolitan appeal. The recent appearance of four of his works in English translations has aroused some interest among discerning readers. The following article was written especially for the BOOKSHELF by a family friend and fellow-townsman of Herr Mann's.-Editor's Note...
...passed when the absorption of one college by another can be seriously decried as an elimination of competition for monetary gain. None would have dared impute such a thing to the megger, announced last week, of Drake University with its fellow-townsman, the University of Des Moines (Iowa). Yet to the name of Drake, under which the merged institutions will proceed, imputations were made plentifully not 20 years...