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Most frequent and most distressing errors result from the substitution of wrong vowels. But according to Mergenthaler Linotype Co., a practiced operator not too severely pressed will make only three or four mistakes to a newspaper galley (approximately a 20 in. column of type lines...
...Clergy Club of New York & Neighborhood, an organization of miscellaneous Protestant doctrinaires, assembled to protest. Dr. Walter Laidlaw, Presbyterian, the Club's founder, spoke harshly: "Bishop Manning . . . [has] taken the wrong club out of his bag for an approach to the consecration of a co-operative bishop suffragan, or played an ineffective drive in his deliverance on the polity and program of the church needed...
...taste of Mr. Tiffany, seeing on the board of trustees the names of such venerable gentlemen as Sculptor Daniel Chester French, Gem Expert George Frederick Kunz, Mural Painter Edwin Howland Blashfield, might imagine that the Foundation was a cradle only for the academic. The casual observer would be wrong. Resident Director and mainspring of the Tiffany Foundation is a sharp-eyed, kinetic, gnomelike person named Stanley Lothrop. It is an open secret that although the Foundation has an admissions committee which goes through the formality of inspecting the paintings submitted by candidates, most of the artists who go to Laurelton...
...Vagabond's attention to the lecture. For he has always been under the impression that anything was fair in love, war, or international politics and that perfectly respectable men who were nice to their mothers would do perfectly detestable things for God, country, or Yale. If the Vagabond is wrong, he wants to know it, and he will be only too grateful if M. de Lanux is able to prove him unduly cynical...
...World] at the Department of the Interior as to the facts." The World replied: Of course not, because the man to whom such inquiry would surely be referred is Edward C. Finney, now the Department's solicitor, formerly (1921-29) Assistant Secretary, the man who saw nothing wrong when the Elk Hills and Teapot Dome scandals were in the making, the man most directly attacked by the Kelley charges. In 1928, Mr. Finney wrote the basic decision which Kelley protested as nullifying the "discovery" provision of the old mining laws and thereby validating countless paper claims of oil companies...