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...Yorker printed a rimed petition to the Mayor of New York, addressed by Poet Arthur Guiterman in behalf of the City's begrimed public statues. Next issue appeared with a five-stanza reply in fluent doggerel, signed by smart little Acting Mayor Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee, Excerpt: I too had noted the condition That caused you, Sir, to make petition. I've pitied Washington and Skene, As poor white marble turned to green, And Booth and Tilden, Grant...
...paper has prospered on circulation profits, but Benton & Bowles advertising agency discovered by the way Grit readers responded to a jelly-making contest last autumn that it should be an excellent medium for household advertising. Thus far Grit's advertising has been predominantly the tawdry patent medicine type. Excerpt from an advertisement of "The Medicine Man" in the anniversary issue: "An Indian Chief told my Father that a tea made by taking two teaspoonsful of Coltsfoot would cure bleeding lungs...
...Post went on to flay the English-Speaking Union editorially. Excerpt: "Pearls of wisdom which fall from the lips of Sir Frederick Whyte . . . shall not be cast before - well, not before run-of-mine citizens of Cincinnati thru the medium of newspaper news columns...
...make over human society. . . . Nor is it a good time to change horses. . . ." ¶ "Dedicated to Franklin D. Roosevelt after hearing his lofty and noble appeal for the Forgotten Man'' were some verses by 80-year-old Edwin Markham, author of "The Man With the Hoe." Excerpt : Not on our golden fortunes builded high- Not on our boasts that soar into the sky- Not upon these is resting in this hour The fate of the future; but upon the power Of him who is forgotten-yes, on him Rest all our hopes reaching from...
...Justice he promptly resigned as Solicitor General, the Government's No. 1 advocate before the Supreme Court. As a parting keepsake the President gave him a Hooverball. Last week Mr. Hughes, also in a soft refined voice, addressed the Essex County (N. J.) Women's Republican Club. Excerpt...