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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...house should be more than three stories high, not for fear of earthquakes, but to avoid such traffic congestion as is found in U. S. cities...
General Juan Vicente Gomez, for 20 years dictator of Venezuela, who recently refused to serve as President for another term, but moved by the earnest pleadings of the entire Venezuelan Congress, accepted the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Venezuelan Army, last week found active use for his new title...
...good husband, a flaming tabloid's good newsgatherer, can both be combined in one person. But that person cannot be a good gardener too. At least so learned David Vivian Bath last week. So learned also New York's Daily Mirror. This is how they found...
Lewisohn has found "all knowledge and worldly wisdom"; embodied in Hebraism, "righteousness, humanity, and peace.'' These are the permanent values he has resolved to serve, believing that a synthesis of Hellenism and Hebraism is the hope of the world. Christianity has no place-Pauline Christianity which Mr. Lewisohn identifies with the divorce laws of New York and therefore with the root of his troubles. "My country and its Christian laws have no regard for love or virtue or the creative mind but give their support to legalized malignity and moral foulness if only these mouth the moral saws...
...publishing markets. There were physical culturists before him, but not many physical culturists who succeeded in getting the man on the street to read about physical culture. In his group of confessional periodicals, typified by True Stories, he has reached down into an obscure stratum of society and found more than two million men and women who previously read few. if any, magazines. His tabloid Graphic, though not first in its field, out-tabloided the other tabloids and found its own public among people who read newspapers only for thrills and will gladly dispense with the news if the thrills...