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Last week U. S. citizens were again reminded that not all grandiose nuts & nostrums are homegrown. Some ten years ago an engaging young Russian who had taken the name Anatole de la Marti appeared in Manhattan, attempted to interest the late Ivy Lee in publicizing certain large schemes for economic betterment which he had conceived. Meeting no success, M. de la Marti returned to Europe, was forgotten...
...ECONOMIC CRISIS. Beneath it, crowding the whole page with small, close-packed type and spilling over into an extra column, was advertised a cure-all for the world's ills. At the top of one column appeared a photograph of the nostrum's author, Anatole de la Marti. After plowing through a column or two. most readers were too dazed to proceed. But the gist of M. de la Marti's plan was to establish a "World Record Service . . . for carrying out competitions in all fields of economic activity, with new and hitherto unknown stimulus, and with...
...When any scholar is able to understand Tully, or such like classical Latine author extempore, and make and speak true Latine verse and prose, suoet aiunt Marti; and decline perfectly the paradignes of nounes and verbes in the Greek tongue: let him then, and not before, be capable of admission into the College...
...smooth, fat face, a wispy mustache and a confident manner for his 24 years, had not been merely a footballer at C. C. N. Y. He had also made friends with a Cuban classmate, one Gonzalo de Quesada. When Quesada introduced him to Jose Julian Marti, known as "the Master" to U. S.-exiled Cuban revolutionaries, young Rubens caught fire from Marti's fervor, swore he would get in there and fight for Cuban independence. This book is the disarmingly partisan record of how Cuba finally got quit of Spain. His own place in the epic Author Rubens keeps modestly...
...President Hoover goes to Detroit for Henry Ford's dedication of the Edison Laboratories; Oct. 22-goes to Cincinnati for the celebration of the opening of the $100,000,000 improved Ohio River waterways; Oct. 23-inspects Louisville Dam. Oct. 25-New $6,000,000 Japanese motorship Asama Marti arrives in San Francisco on maiden voyage...