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Joseph Moore Dixon of Missoula, Mont., to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Born of Quaker parents in North Carolina and educated at Quaker colleges, Mr. Dixon, as a lawyer, went west, became U. S. Senator from Montana, later its Governor. He went off Bull Moosing in 1912, remained a Progressive, dabbled in many an insurgent movement. However he was not sufficiently irregular to defeat Democratic Burton Kendall Wheeler for the U. S. Senate last year...
...project reaches light at a time closely connected with a general literary renaissance south of the Mason-Dixon Line. American Literature with its board of editors including national figures such as Bliss Perry, Norman Forester of North Carolina, and Stanley T. Williams of Yale promises to stimulate the southern literary rebirth as well as be itself enriched by membership in that movement...
...press in giving it inner page columns and cuts. Ostensibly for educational purpose, its national importance deserves a better fate at the hands of the Fourth Estate. The practical value of having things thrashed out from the Peruvian, Swedish or Roumanian point of view by their respective North Dakotan, Ohioan and Minnesotan representatives is inestimable...
Cotton. Five New England cotton mills combined to attack in force their industry's depression. The mills: Valley Falls Co. of Albion, R. I; the Coventry Co. of Coventry, R. I.; Berkshire Cotton Manufacturing Co. of Adams, Mass.; the Greylock Mills of North Adams, Mass.; and Fort Dummer Mills of Brattleboro, Vt. Capitalization: about...
...North Arlington, N. J., Author Bryan Hamilton Connolly, aged 14, pondered. The manuscript of his unfinished novel, The Marble Coffin, lay before him, and he had just written: "Your kids are being held for $500,000 ransom. Beginning tomorrow we will cut an ear off each one every day until the money is sent to us. When the ears are gone we will cut off their toes one by one." It was an effective piece of writing, but how would normal parents react to such a letter? Author Connolly, recalling the existence of his nine-year-old brother...