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McCarthy is a quiet, unostentatious leader. He did not make a Big League name as a player. In the minor leagues he was considered a competent, not a brilliant infielder, but eventually he became a manager at Louisville (American Association). He began winning pennants. He attracted Tycoon Wrigley's eye. At Chicago he built carefully, and his final punch came with the acquisition of Rogers Hornsby, for whom he traded five players and considerable currency to Boston. The addition of Hornsby gives Chicago a "Murderer's Row" of batters comparable to the famed Yankee quartet of Ruth, Gehrig...
LIBERTY, famed product of potent tycoon Medill-Patterson-McCormick-dynasty, March 9, p. 4, editorially, re "DIVORCE AND COLLUSION," says...
...DIVORCE-or the tycoon dynasty- changed the order of the Ten Commandments? I'm neither Editor nor Theologian, just an old-fashioned fellow who learned-and still understands-the Commandments run thus: 6th: Thou shalt not commit adultery. 7th: Thou shalt not steal. Am I out-of-date? Have the Commandments been shifted? If so, by whom? when? why? To supremely subtle, sublimely succinct, superlatively sane TIME I turn for correct information. J. J. SHERLOCK Hollywood, Calif. Unless Subscriber Sherlock learned his commandments from the Vatican account of Exodus, he has forgotten his early schooling. In Bible texts today...
Properly enough, this model farm is the property of Public Utility Tycoon Samuel Insull who operates it as a semi-advertisement of the Electric...
...have drawn up a very solemn legal compact involving fines for overproduction and compensation for underproduction. But despite the fact that President Coolidge in 1924 appointed a Federal Oil Conservation Board which consistently recommended co-operation within the oil industry as a cure for over production, the U. S. tycoon is still a little nervous concerning production agreements which might provoke anti-trust proceedings. So everyone simply shook hands all around and Edwin Benjamin Reeser, head. of A. P. I., also of Barnsdall Corp., Tulsa independent, said: "For the first time in the life of the Institute a child...