Word: forli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More far-sighted and cogent to those publishers who regard the Canadian industry as a monopoly, was the proposal of onetime Senator Gilbert Monell Hitchcock of the Omaha World-Herald. Said he: "Whatever the directors do of a temporary nature ought to be supplemented by some action towards permanent relief...
†The U. S. Government is negotiating for $10,000,000 worth of Alaskan spruce and hemlock for newsprint manufacture, a stimulant to pulpsters' interest in that territory. The U. S. now annually imports about 100,000 tons of newsprint, duty free, from Germany, Finland, Sweden, Norway. This amount...
Maurice Falk, rich Pittsburgher, established a $10,000,000 trust fund (Maurice & Laura Falk Foundation) "for the promotion of educational, religious, charitable, philanthropic and public interest." Administered by his nephew Leon Falk Jr. (with whose father he gave the $900,000 Falk Clinic to the University of Pittsburgh) and six...
Edward Hugh Sothern, oldtime Shakespearean trouper with his wife Julia Marlowe, spoke in Chicago about the U. S. stage. Said he: "Fifty years ago we led the world in stock companies of fine standards. Now we are in lewd and vulgar depths for the most part."
"How practical for a big family!" remarked King Albert of Belgium, gazing upon the luggage rack of a cheap five-passenger U. S. touring car at the Brussels motor show. King Albert, father of Leopold, Charles Theodore, Marie Jose, drives large Minervas, rides motorcycles.