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With anger in his stout heart, Reformer Howard last February visited a Bingo hot spot, Rochester, N. Y., where he once lived after amassing a modest fortune as a picture-frame salesman. For Progress, organ of his Federation, the Little Giant wrote: "This is Rochester under the benign administration of Bishop Kearney, and Rev. Father Charles J. Bruton, who is quoted as boasting that he had cleaned up $65.000 as the share of St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church from Bingo. Can we be surprised that suggestions have been received at this office from Rochester that the new Supreme Pontiff shall...
McClure's greatest sensation was Ida Tarbell's The History of the Standard Oil Company. This week Miss Tarbell, now 81, tells the story in a benign, careful, unsensational autobiography which contains the best account to date of McClure's great days. She was freelancing in Paris in 1892, when a slight, restless, sandy-haired young man bounded up the 80 steps to her apartment, announced that he was Samuel Sidney McClure, said he could stay only ten minutes, talked over plans for articles for hours, rushed off to Switzerland after borrowing $40 from his future star...
...when the seas began to be thronged with more modern, more efficient rivals. A plausible theory is that the Coelacanths retreated to the deeps where competition was not severe, and persisted there as the archaic okapi survived in the dense Congo forests, as the primitive duck-billed platypus in benign Australia. If so, some whim or freak of circumstance brought this particular Coelacanth up from the deeps to the coastal water of South Africa. And the possibility remains that other "living fossils" may lurk in the ocean depths, awaiting the scrutiny of science if science is ingenious enough to retrieve...
...been confined mainly to the negative side of this doctrine, keeping foreign nations out. Recently Pan American conferences, the "Good Neighbor Policy," etc. have attempted to give it some positive substance. Last week in Washington a concrete step was taken to make this policy something more than a benign theory...
...Harvard were not treated in accordance with the liberal doctrines being taught in Sever and Emerson. There were even law suits, and the result was a lot of bad publicity for the University and a distrust on the part of employees which survived the advent of a more benign policy...