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...where he was born in a log-cabin 54 years ago, to Texas where he got his start as a grocery clerk and smalltown banker and to Illinois where he reached, with dignity and without greed, the front rank of his vocation. A precedent in his favor: Lyman Judson Gage stepped out of the presidency of the First National to become McKinley's Secretary of the Treasury...
...years the German people have stood for so much in regard to the suspension of their constitutional rights, the establishment of a virtual dictatorship, and the rule of a party which has been steadily declining in prestige, power and numbers since the war, that the foreign observer cannot possibly gage the point where that endurance will end. The refusal of Hitler to take over the government makes plausible the guess that the time is not yet ripe for a violent reaction from the policy of rapprochement with France which was followed by the Bruening regime. It is however, much easier...
William Green emerges from obscurity to take up the gage for the six-hour day. Mr. Ford toyed with the idea as long as it seemed to promise profit for him, Edison considered its final adoption inevitable, but it has remained for Mr. Green to take any real steps to spread the system. Yet few know that the plan has now been in successful operation in a modern factory for more than a year. This development is the more significant because it promises to alleviate the American unemployment situation...
Regular counsel for the Star is Watson, Gage, Ess, Groner & Barnett. Senior Partner I. N. Watson is the firm's authority on libel. He defended Henry Ford against Aaron Sapiro, Associated with him in that case was Senator Reed, and last week hard-hitting Lawyer Reed was again called in. White-crested, choleric of complexion, a cigar clamped in the corner of his axe-mark mouth, he will glory in fighting once more "for the People." For whatever the merits of the two sides may be, with Lawyer Reed's party's reputation at slake locally (Governor Woodring...
...Gage were traveling in Europe last week and thus did not see their costly dogs, their son's memorial, reduced to ashes and cinders...