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That the matchmaker rivals or out-tops princes and statesmen in importance was indicated when the Saturday Evening Post's Isaac Marcosson, "world's most famed" interviewer, chose him as prime subject for investigation last summer. During an interview which extended over days, the matchmaker said: "There is not a single competitor with sufficient influence upon the different markets to cause us any really serious harm. No market is sufficiently significant to be of importance to us. The reason is that the whole world is our field...
...past week the following men and women arrived in the U. S. on the following ships: On the Aquitania (Cunard)-Alvin W. Krech, Chairman of the Equitable Trust Co., Manhattan; James Stillman Rockefeller, Captain of the Champion U. S. Olympic Crew. On the Olympic (White Star) - Isaac F. Marcosson, magazine writer; Glenn H. Curtiss, airplane manufacturer; James Speyer, Manhattan banker; Elsie Janis, vaudeville actress; Cyril Maude, English actor. On the Rotterdam (Holland-America)-Medill McCormick, senior U. S. Senator from Illinois; Dr. George V. Butte, Republican opponent of "Ala" Ferguson for Governor of Texas. GOING. During the past week...
...unusually perspicuous article, excepting the vagaries of style considered essential to The Saturday Evening Post, Isaac F. Marcosson, famed cosmic journalist, discussed Britain's Labor regime...
This seems solid foundation for Mr. Marcosson's contention that the Government has pursued a policy of "masterly inactivity," expressed, for one thing, in conspicuous failure to solve the unemployment problem−there are still 1,000,000 men out of work. ... A unique situation summed up in the phrase, Labor without labor...
...Admittedly, the Labor Government has not scored a success in its domestic policies, but in the conduct of foreign affairs, Mr. Marcosson's adverse criticism is not fair. Before Labor could do anything it had to create a favorable atmosphere and most of its first six months' term of office was consecrated to this necessary prerequisite to an active foreign policy...