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When the Smith Special arrived at Newton, Kan., it found a newsboy at the station distributing, free, copies of the Fellowship Forum which announced: "Roman Catholic Clerical Party opens big drive to capture America for the Pope...
...Power in Wall Street stops to chat with his favorite newsboy and lets fall a hint that such and such a stock is cheap at the current market price, the newsboy has what is known as a "sure thing." If the boy generously lets a traffic policeman in on the secret, he unburdens himself of a "hot tip." If the policeman hesitates to act on the tip, decides first to read How to Invest Money Wisely, by John Moody, he is given the benefit of "financial counsel...
...first gavel fell, the Smith managers were concerned lest their progress look like "steam-rollering." They confined themselves to distributing 50 cases of Smith literature and discussed the platform more than their man. Odds rose to 9 to i on the Smith nomination. Thomas ("Silver Tongue") Hickey onetime newsboy "from the sidewalks of San Francisco" prepared his speech to second the Smith nomination. "There are two kinds of big men," said Mr. Hickey. "Those who grow and those who just swell. Well, Al's growing all the time...
...first enterprise. "I had good luck-I failed when I was young." The boom in Michigan lumber came and went. He was still poor. He went to the Coast. He was 50 before he had enough money to buy a sawmill. Transportation was bad and expensive. He bought the Newsboy, a 300-ton ship, to take his lumber to ports along the Pacific Coast...
Birthday for Adolph S. Ochs (born March 12, 1858 in Cincinnati, Ohio). From newsboy and printer's devil in Knoxville, Tenn., he had risen to publisher of the New York Times. Said Alfred Morton Cohen, of the Hebrew Union College in Manhattan, where Mr. Ochs is chairmanning a $5,000,000 endowment drive: "As Adolph Ochs has climbed rung by rung the ladder of fame and fortune, his love for his fellowmen has increased more and more...