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...greatest of U. S. commercial successes. Young, ambitious men, seeking business inspiration, pored over his oft-written success story. A Retail Napoleon was the title one of his biographers took. A Merchant Prince in Deed as Well as in Name was the heading of another. But when Henry Siegel died last week in Lakewood, N. J. at the age of 78, he was neither rich nor remembered. The Retail Napoleon had had his St. Helena as well as his Waterloo. Henry Siegel arrived in the U. S. in 1867, aged 15, the eighth of the ten sons of the burgomaster...
...Senator Fess could not make the party Dry by word, he could by deed. He promptly appointed Mrs. Lenna Lowe Yost, potent Washington lobbyist for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, to be director of the important Women's Division of the Republican National Committee, vice Mrs. Louise M. Dodson of Iowa, resigned. Mrs. Yost, a sister-in-law of Fielding Harris ("Hurry Up") Yost, athletic director at the University of Michigan, was a student under Senator Fess when he was professor of law at Ohio Northern University. She moved to West Virginia, entered politics as a feminist. She headed...
...Brownie, a nine-month-old pooch of indeterminate breed living in Pasadena, Calif, went the prize. His deed: dragging his mistress, a 13 month-old child, from before an onrushing motor car. Explained one of the judges: "He was only a pup and it was the first time an emergency had arisen, but instinctively he knew what...
...room in the Stacy-Trent Hotel, newsgatherers waited excitedly, for in there with the committeemen had marched Dwight Whitney Morrow, nominated fortnight ago to run for the Senate as a Wet (TIME, June 30). Would he prevail upon the State Republican leaders, traditionally Dry in word if not in deed, to make the platform express his revolutionary personal views? If he did, it would be the first time since the passage of the 18th Amendment that its repeal had been demanded by any Republican organization...
...nation's electorate. The first week's hearings began with a lesson in the generalities of Communism and concluded with an adroit plea from the American Federation of Labor for stronger Unionism to combat U. S. S. R. theories. No "Reds" were yet hunted by name and deed...