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President Randolph's contract was the product of a twelve-year campaign. Born in Crescent City, Fla. in 1889, the son of a Methodist preacher, he made his name as founder-editor of the crusading Negro Messenger. For his opposition to U. S. participation in the War, he was officially branded as the "most dangerous Negro in America." Once he received a threat on his life in the form of a bloody human hand, mailed from Louisiana...
...Crime of the Century." The record of Mitchell Hepburn is as amazing, paradoxical, red-blooded and wild as any to be found in the robust British Dominions. He was born 41 years ago on a St. Thomas farm of sturdy Scotch-Irish stock. After public schooling, which finished with the St. Thomas Collegiate Institute, the farmer boy, aged only 17, proudly became a cashier in a small branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce...
...German-born, German-trained Chemist Kochs took over the little Victor plant in Chicago Heights after his father-in-law had acquired it in payment of a debt, incorporated it in 1902. Losing regularly at first, he persuaded Cornelius Vanderbilt, President John R. Hegemen of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and Banker William A. Read to "take a flyer" with $150,000. They never had cause to regret the move-business picked up in 1907, and with the War Victor left its competitors behind. In 1920 it expanded by building a second plant in West Nashville, near Tennessee's phosphate...
...Born in Ohio, raised on a New Mexico ranch, he was "married, divorced and bankrupt" before he was 21. After going broke he settled down to work for the Overland used-car agency in Los Angeles until one day he heard that a steam laundry was badly needed in Tampico, Mexico, to wash oil workers' dirty shirts...
...SHORT STORIES OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD-Knopf ($3.50). All the finished (73) and unfinished (15) stories of the Australian-born writer who has been compared to Russia's Chekhov, now for the first time collected in one volume; with an introduction by her relict, John Middleton Murry...