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...tablet and presented it to Governor George S. Silzer of New Jersey as a state monument, the latter accepting after Mrs. Edison had unveiled it. President John G. Hibben of Princeton then perorated, with interruptions by a rumbling freight train and a youthful Edisonian who leapt to the fore to declare he would never go to college.*Samuel Insull terminated the speechmaking...
...this juncture, a remarkable personality came to the fore. Ask a dozen political women what woman is most fitted to be President of the U. S. and six will answer: Carrie Chapman Catt. She put the 19th Amendment into the Constitution. This widow of an Iowa newspaperman has probably presided over more congregations of women, has composed more intra-sex quarrels, than any other contemporary...
...problem of an age of industrialism is not: "How much can we produce?" but: "How much can the public consume?" Wherefore the vast, highly organized, temperamental estate called "the molders of favorable public opinion," or, more prosaically, Advertising Men. Last year, when the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World fore-gathered in London, voted Houston, Tex., as their next meeting place, U. S. enthusiasm knew no bounds. It was so infectious that the staid London Times was moved, even ten months later (in March), to elaborate a special supplement in celebration of Texas-her history, her heroes, her landmarks...
With Mr. Shaw, thinking is merely the fore-runner of action. Having concluded that Shakespeare was one of the world's two greatest dramatists. Mr. Shaw has set about the creation of a Shakespeare National Memorial Theatre, but without startling success. In Mr. Archibald Henderson's "Table Talk of G. B. S." he reports what progress has already been made. "After many years of struggle," says Mr. Shaw, "we have had but one subscription. The solitary sportsman who gave it was a Hamburg gentleman. When Germany recovers from the war, we may get another move on. Nil desperandum...
...platform towering by the hulk's bow chatted a gay party. In the fore were Secretary and Mrs. Wilbur (TIME, Apr. 6) ; Mrs. Wilbur's sister, Mrs. Paist of Wayne, Pa., and Mr. Paist; Admirals Eberle, Moffett, Jones, Bloch, J. K. Robison and their wives; General and Mrs. Lejeune. Mrs. Wilbur's left arm was hidden beneath American Beauty roses. Her right arm grasped a beribboned bottle of Saratoga mineral water. Presently Mr. Wilbur exhorted his wife...