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...lines reported waiting lists. Automobiles were spotted from every state of the Union. At 11 o'clock Sunday night a wriggling, milling mob made State Street look like Saturday afternoon. It was Labor Day week-end and Chicago was playing host to its largest out-of-town crowd in history, estimated at 500,000 persons...
...When they received Washington dispatches on Congressman Fish's charges last week they killed them, ostrich-wise, at President Hecht's urgent request. Of course the news went out to newspapers in the North. Hibernia Bank & Trust, doing a nation-wide business, began to suffer heavy out-of-town withdrawals, and the news seeped through New Orleans' financial district. President Hecht wired complete refutation of the charges and Congressman Fish offered to review the facts. Shot back President Hecht: "Thank you for your message. . . . In the meantime this unfortunate publicity has done irreparable damage to my bank...
...hadn't told him he should go to night school. One day when Brit was not in the office and someone called William to do a chore, he uttered a remark that became an office classic. He was sitting in his cubby-hole among the piled up out-of-town newspapers. Instead of coming out at once when called, he answered: 'I am busy...
...most con- spicuous spot he could find, Publisher William Randolph Hearst has drawn bitter condemnation from a variety of sources. Showmen declared that the spectacle of misery at the doors of their theatres caused strollers to change their minds about spending money for fun. Merchants charged that out-of-town buyers are actually depressed by the scene to the point of curtailing orders. Many an observer has seized the handy conclusion that Publisher Hearst had the hungry accept alms, in the glare of Broadway instead of on a darkened side street- simply to get cheap advertising for his paper...
Playing its first week-end out-of-town game, the University hockey team travels to New York tomorrow, where it will meet a veteran University of Toronto sextet at Madison Square Garden...