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Father Johns
I refer to George S. Johns, fighting editor, grand old man among American journalists. Thirty-five years "Editor of the Editorial Page" of the Post-Dispatch and at present very much alive and enjoying the position of associate editor of that paper.
One year separates the births of John Augur Holabird and John Wellborn Root. their graduation from the Beaux Arts in Paris, their architectural entry into Chicago. In 1919 they were both made partners in Holabird & Roche and young John Root had caught up with old John Holabird. Although their careers...
¶ No one has been more active in sponsoring the National Housing Act than President Lewis H. Brown of Johns-Manville Corp. But housing is still in the future. Huge Johns-Manville was lucky enough to wangle a $173,000 profit against a half-year deficit of $861.000 in 1933...
The death ray, always exciting to laymen, is an old familiar to scientists. After the interplanetary "spaceship," it is probably the most popular gadget in pseudo-scientific fiction. Even in Herbert George Wells's shrewdly written War of the Worlds (1898), the first act of arriving Martians is to spray...