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Private monopoly is its chief topic. Says the blurb: " Month by month we shall present some phase of GOVERNMENT BY PRIVATE MONOPLY. 'Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.' (Signed) Robert M. La Follette...
...from the blurb: "Help us, therefore, dear reader, to give this publication the influence which it deserves throughout this Great Nation...
...recorded whether it was as a parallel to the Alger style of title (From Postman to President) that William C. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce under Woodrow Wilson, has written his recollections under the title: From Congress to Cabinet. According to a blurb of The Outlook...
Huge advertisements of Mr. Hearst's Cosmopolitan for May feature an allegedly true story entitled Mercy. "One day a chilling shadow fell," says the blurb. "While Mrs. Wills, with her two small sons, was away on a visit to her parents, the Reverend Robert N. Wills disappeared-and with him the pretty dark-eyed organist!" Then the ad takes on bolder type: "A story of a once prominent minister and his life expiation for a moment's madness." "A story that never got into the newspapers because a whole city held its secret in- violate." Ray Long edits...
...Dorian Abbott--I suspect from the style and tone of his Preface that he is no more than a publisher's blurb--has said officially that the volume did not attempt to be representative. But Mr. Wheelwright declares that seven years of Harvard's poetic output was carefully examined in compiling the volume, in order to assure a just representation of the best work. On the contrary, I believe I represent Harvard opinion when I say that not only do the puerile mouthings of the "Eight More" fail to typify the University; but that poems which do far more justice...