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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ledge. Four business partners hold a sombre "conference. One of them has stolen some of the firm's securities and the evidence points to the handsome, heretofore spotless Richard Legrange. Bearing in mind the ordeals by fire and water with which savage tribesmen test virtue, the businessmen devise an ordeal by dizziness for Legrange. He must walk from one window to another along a four-inch ledge on the outside of the building which, at that point, is 200 feet above ground. If he falls, his death will be announced as suicide; if he accomplishes the feat the whole...
Died. Harry Hart, 79, president of Hart, Schaffner & Marx (clothing); in Chicago; of pneumonia. In 1872, with his brother Max, he began the firm of Harry Hart & Bro. in Chicago. With a brother-in-law and Marcus Marx, Hart, Abt & Marx was opened seven years later. When Levi Abt withdrew from the concern, a new partner was taken in and the present house established as Hart, Schaffner & Marx. The first year (1887) they did a $550,000 business; last year, a $35,000,000 business. Founder Hart survived his partners. Long interested in educational* and social work...
...unfortunate aspect of this fading power is not that Harvard will eventually lose its firm grasp on the American stage, but that what was once a fertile field of capable dramatists has suddenly become barren for want of cultivation. The tradition which established theatrical activity has fortunately not had time to become extinct as is definitely indicated by the recurring undergraduate efforts to cause some sort of dramatic revival. But the impetus necessary to materialize these feelings must come before the fire is smothered in the obliterating blanket of opposition and neglect...
...appreciate the obstacles to be surmounted in carrying out the House plan, and urge that it would be better to include the freshmen in them. What may be possible at some future time, when the system has been so long in use as to create a firm tradition in the minds of prospective students, of their parents, and of headmasters of schools, is a different question...
...them in cheap, garish colors, sold them by thousands. During the Civil War, with Collaborator J. M. Ives, Nathaniel Currier made battle scenes, gave them to prize-winning essayists and orators in the grammar schools and as premiums in grocery stores to drum up patriotism. After the war the firm exploited and illustrated early frontier anecdotes, railroad sagas, Mississippi River steamboat races. They flooded the country with pictures of George Washington at home, baby looking at mama in the mirror and saying "It's Mama," baby looking sadly at mama and saying. "Where's papa?" With the advent...