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Utterances: "Hunger, cold rags, hard work, contempt, suspicion, unjust reproach, are disagreeable; but debt is infinitely worse than them all. ... If you have but 50c and can get no more for a week, buy a peck of corn, parch it and live on it, rather than owe any man a dollar...
Died. Robert P. ("Big Bob") Brindell, 47; onetime Manhattan labor Tsar; in Manhattan, of lung infection. As dock laborer he first organized 3,000 longshoremen, who paid him $18,000 a year (50c a month per man) for securing wage increase. Founding the Building Trades Council (1919), he came into command of 115,000 men, gave diamonds, automobiles, to friends. Imprisoned for extensive extortion (1921), he was released (1924) minus friends, health and most of the $1,000,000 he had made...
...scenery, peopled it with marionettes. The stage was set in the Damrosch parlor. While Gustav manipulated the Rhine maidens, Walter played the music on the piano. Thus was Richard Wagner's Rheingold produced for the first time in the U. S., (before the Schirmer and Damrosch families, admission 50c). Nine years later, Leopold Damrosch, noted German conductor, died. Walter succeeded his father as conductor of the New York Symphony, the Oratorio Society, the Metropolitan Opera, at the age of 23. He immediately executed plans for a more elaborate presentation of Wagnerian opera than had been possible in the parlor...
...bounce 14 inches after a drop of three feet, thus affording a measure of amusement before taking. Their constant buyers have always been among the poorer middle classes everywhere, who cringe from a doctor's bill, but can afford lOc for 12 pills, or 25c for 40, or 50c for 90. Still, Sir Joseph, on a visit to the U. S. in 1912, could brag: "My pills are taken by dukes and lords, who conceal the fact from their family doctors. I have positive evidence of this. Medical men take them on the quiet...
...steady growth of what might be called a youth movement, begun 25 years ago in one city (New York) has now spread its network over our entire country. Dues in all the 92 associated Leagues were, by motion at the national conference last spring at Nashville, Tenn., raised from 50c to $1 per girl to pay for the new club, which will be open for tea, bridge, reading and information from 10 to 5:30 daily except Saturdays and Sundays. 'We are planning,' said I, 'to have exhibitions of members' work in drawing, sculpture, painting...