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...hill town of Galatz the rabbi is rich. His daughter took a husband. The rabbi celebrated. He invited 10,000 guests, who filled the town. At the great feast they consumed, among other things, 33 carcasses of beef, 210 sheep, 170 calves. A heavy garrison preserved order...
...Oswald Garrison Villard, pacifist editor of the Nation, then drew much odium upon himself by assailing U. S. men and methods in the Government's Latin-American policy. The U. S. rules all but six Latin-American Republics "by bullets and bankers," the U. S. "dragooned" Mexico for U. S. oil interests, said Mr. Villard. "The blood of the 3,000 Haytians slain by our American marines, and of the 400 dead in Vera Cruz, mostly women and children, dishonors our good name, especially when involved with so sordid a business as debt collection...
...Homeric (White Star)- ex-Secretary of War Lindley M. Garrison; E. G. Grace, President of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation; Mrs. Molla Mallory; Lois Wilson, cinema actress; Rosamond Pinchot, famed...
...Committee of California, and was known as the "Boss of the Southwest." He had in his employ four retiring or retired members of Wilson's Cabinet: W. G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury; Thomas W. Gregory, Attorney General; Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior; and Lindley M. Garrison, Secretary of War. California politicians even urged his nomination for the Vice Presidency to run with James...
...Star is not the story of a great and unflinching martyr who went to his death upholding his opinions. It is the story of a soft martyr, who never actually recanted, but tried to mollify his persecutors by concessions. The manner of this compromise was well described by Oswald Garrison Villard in his Some Newspapers and Newspapermen*. The Star adopted the formal tactics of its commercial competitors?screaming headlines, comic strips, subscription premiums. By these methods its business managers tried to gain circulation, and they got perhaps 60,000?no mean feat. But it went further in its compromises...