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...weight that he laid upon my family when he accused me of being a friend of prostitution. . . . My record as an opponent of immorality is fixed and secure. Publicly and by many letters in my possession, the late Rev. Canon John P. Peters, when chairman of the Committee of Fourteen, the leading anti-vice society of New York, repeatedly thanked me for my co-operation with that organization. No one in all the 25 years of my public life has ever dared to make the vile suggestions which emanated from Mr. White, with the approval of Henry J. Allen, publicity...
Such seemed the consensus of informed Japanese opinion last week respecting a report unjust, issued by the New York City Anti-Vice Committee of Fourteen...
...York Committee of Fourteen, thought tolerant Japanese last week, probably had in mind not the Geisha, but the Joro. A Japanese male of lowest estate, called an Uma or "horse" imparts in a few moments to the despised Joro such little learning as she, coarse and unfit for Geishahood, is thought to require...
Ford Sued. The Packard Motor Car Co. and the Wire Wheel Corp. of America last week filed suit against the Ford Motor Co., charging that the demountable wire wheel used on the new Ford is an infringement of the Cowles patent which Packard and Wire Wheel control. Fourteen years ago, one Edward T. Cowles of Warren, Ohio, sold this patent to Packard for a reported...
...that distinguished journalist M. Stephane Lauzanne, writing in the authoritative Matin: "In one word, M. Hoover is the first business man in a country of the biggest business men in the world. Perhaps he may never move crowds with his eloquence nor the world with his declarations in fourteen points. But it is certain that, with him as President, America will never suffer cold, nor hunger, nor privation...