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The public fancy was last week drawn, unexpectedly, to a romantic anachronism in U. S. travel-the oldtime river packet, built like a summer hotel on a flatboat, puffing smoke from tall twin funnels set near the flat round bows, slapping up the river mud with broad paddles set astern...
The galleries wahooed. The stand-pattingest of the standpatters smiled indulgently. At one burst of applause, the young man bowed deeply and said: "It is so unusual for a Republican from Wisconsin to receive applause at a National Republican Convention that I thank you most sincerely." Then, lest politeness detract...
The Government, like any other business concern, bows to the money market. But the Government, more than any other moneyed concern - especially since the Federal Reserve System began affecting the stock market - helps make the money market. Hence the interest of economists and the perturbation of speculators when Secretary Mellon...
Last week the focus of this ebullient international incident was a Berlin cab driver, "Iron Gustav" Hartmann, 69. Clad in a neat navy blue great coat, beaming behind his reddish beard, and nursing a fat cigar, "Iron Gustav" rode triumphantly up the Champs Elysees, acknowledging the chorus of perhaps ironic...
The solution completely negatives the last presumption. From the evidence in the hands of the Monitor, it is shown that University Extension work has increased in all its dimensions of late, until this octopus of education has in its grip the stray minutes of the workman's day. Brawn bows...