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Stroke of Genius. A cousin of John Pierpont Morgan is the U. S. Ambassador in Turkey, alert and able, though slightly deaf, Joseph Clark Grew. Last week, presumably because of Mr. Crew's diplomacy, the consuls of Turkey in Soviet Russia were granted authority to certify documents relative to Russo-U. S. trade...
Into the study of Thomas Alva Edison at Llewellyn Park, N. J. last week walked Lieut. Richard T. Aldworth, U. S. A. retired, tall, solemn, redheaded director of Newark Airport. Three hours later he departed with fingers cramped from scribbling 25 pages of answers to the deaf inventor's questions; also with the knowledge that Inventor Edison proposes to attack the problem of flying in dirty weather. As preface to the interview Inventor Edison, who had summoned Lieut. Aldworth, piloted him across the room, read aloud to him the words on a brass plaque hanging on the wall: "There...
Improperly nourished . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000,000 Defective speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000,000 Weak or damaged hearts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000,000 Behavior problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675,000 Mentally retarded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450,000 Tubercular . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382,000 Impaired hearing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342,000 Totally deaf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,000 Crippled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300,000 Partially blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,000 Wholly blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,000 Delinquent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200,000 Dependent...
...Deaf as a post, or nearly, is great General Ismet Pasha, Prime Minister. At the railway station in Angora, bleak Turkish Capital, he warmly greeted last week a Greek, famed Eleutherios Venizelos, Prime Minister. Before M. Venizelos could speak, deaf General Ismet embraced him with a bear-hug. Arm in arm they left the station...
...president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, in order to increase his chances of getting Pennsy business. In England, Cyrus McCormick exhibited a rusty shipwrecked harvester in competition with spick-&-span machines, won the contest, increased his sales. Frank Munsey never once during 25 years forgot that a certain associate was deaf in his right ear. Dwight Morrow surprised Calles by being human. A University President got a second million out of a philanthropist by making sure that the first million was thoroughly publicized. Famed Realtor Joseph P. Day sold an old-fashioned office building to Steel's late great Judge Gary...