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...President, the Party nominated William J. Wallace, of Newark, N. J., President of the Eck Dynamo and Motor Co.; for Vice President, J. C. Lincoln, President of the Lincoln Motor Works of Cleveland...
...Most Dynamic of Novelists Dr. Smythe, of the International Book Review, came out of the elevator. "Well," said he, "that human dynamo is upstairs waiting for you!" Human dynamo, Blasco Ibanez certainly proved to be. Dark, white-skinned, brisk, almost jerky in his movements, with hands which noticeably wear several jeweled rings and gesticulate in square, but expressive fashion, the great Spanish spinner of yarns is a perfect echo of the life he has led. He does not speak in English. I speak no Spanish, little French. He spoke in French and I understood. A friend put my questions...
...rivalry of great newspapers can at times give way to courtesy. In the press room of The New York World, a spark from a dynamo flew into a pile of papers and started a fire that damaged two presses and stopped the remainder. The General Manager of The New York Herald (Munsey), rival morning paper, on hearing of the fire, at once offered the World the use of his presses...
...alumnus may let all the intervening commencements slip by with hardly a thought for his perennially expectant Alma Mater. Not so the twentieth. The reasons are fairly obvious. At forty-one or forty-two years of age even a human dynamo feels strongly the temptation to pause for breath and take a look backward. He discovers then a strong curiosity concerning his forgotten classmates. How do they look after twenty years. How much have they got? What do they know? It may be assumed that he has attained by now to what he considers a respectable position in life. Hence...
Will it, like so many other industries, develop its vested interests and its propaganda? Will junk barons buy up newspapers to preach the cause of international peace? Will second-hand dynamo lobbies try to put over disarmament jokers on Parliaments and Congresses? Will venal correspondents and news agencies flood the press of the world with fakes about peace banquets in Tokio, international meetings in London, interracial resolutions of friendship in Rome, all provocative of unity among the nations and designed to build up the scraping industry? More power to them! -New York Evening Post...