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...financial strain on roads that were weak because of their poor geographical position by having stronger and better placed lines contribute to their support during the emergency. While loans to pay fixed charges might not increase their actual debt, it did not bring them any closer to financial daylight. Critics also complained that the proceeds of any freight rate in- crease, under the A. of R. E.'s loan plan, would ultimately return to the strong carriers which did not need them...
...Adams-Little, Brown ($3). Not Prohibition but the U. S. itself, thinks James Truslow Adams, is the noble experiment. He calls it the "American dream." In this one-volume history of the U. S. he shows the beginnings of the dream, its sinkings into nightmare, its lapses into crude daylight reality, its volatile rises. Professional historian, no mealy-mouthed panegyrist, Adams has written his epic in curt, clear narrative; but "the epic loses all its glory without the dream. The statistics of size, population, and wealth would mean nothing to me unless I could still believe in the dream...
Publisher Brown kept no office at his newspaper plant, or anywhere else. Like Circusman John Ringling, he always conducted his business at night, principally after 9 o'clock, until daylight, "because I find I meet with less disturbance than working during the day." He would arise about 4 p. m. at his Cherokee Park home, go to town in the evening, to a branch of his National Bank. There he would sit at the desk of a vice president and, with barely the scratch of a pen, direct his myriad affairs political, financial, mercantile. And there he would issue...
...Observers wondered about Oilman Doherty's motive. Had he rushed into the Journal-Post in the heat of wrath, unmindful of the stigma attaching to a "kept" newspaper and all that appears in it? Or had he coolly reckoned that by walking in the front door in broad daylight, he would forestall attacks upon his and the paper's virtue? Although it declined to get excited, the New York Times opined that whatever his reasoning, Mr. Doherty had defeated his own end. Said the Times...
After the last final examinations tomorrow, the camp will return to the use of Daylight Saving Time, which has not been kept since the start of exams...