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...Bernarr Macfadden (then Kinistherapist Bernard Adolphus McFadden) invented a massaging device. To advertise it he brought out a 5? pamphlet consisting principally of a serial called "The Athlete's Conquest" with cover illustrations of "Professor B. McFadden in Classical Poses." The pamphlet far outsold the massager, became the Professor's chief interest as Physical Culture magazine...
...Knox of the Chicago Daily News and Warren Fairbanks of the Indianapolis News. There he left them to their own amusement long enough to discuss arms limitation with Assistant Secretary of State Rogers, anti-trust laws with Assistant Attorney General O'Brian. In circulation last week was a pamphlet published by the Virginia State Commission on Conservation & Development, handsomely printed, with maps, by Edward L. Stone of Roanoke and called "The President's Camp on the Rapidan." The text was a casual history of Madison County and the "Northern Neck" from the time of Lord Fairfax...
William Hope Harvey was born in what is now Putnam County. West Virginia. He practiced law in Chicago, moved to Denver, mined silver, made money, listened to debates on the silver question. No economist, he published in 1894 a pamphlet called "Coin's Financial School," in which "Professor Coin" held a series of imaginary interviews with leading bankers, farmers, editors, on free silver coinage as a political cureall. "Professor Coin's" financial sophistries were made to defeat and convince all-comers. Within a year Harvey had sold 1,000,000 copies of his pamphlet to debt-ridden farmers...
...Boyden Sparkes, published last week by Frederick A. Stokes Co. ($1.50). But in swift-moving, unadorned narrative style it sets forth a good portrait of a Customers' Man of the Coolidge era. Before publication, the Board of Governors of the New York Stock Exchange had pamphlet copies privately printed for their own reading. To them the subject is especially interesting, for since the Crash of 1929 the Exchange has done much to lessen the evils of which Mr. Sparkes writes. Customers' Man Robert Loomis had a pleasing personality and was an excellent barytone. He stopped his music studies...
...child has uttered, the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A., in the persons of General Secretary Fred W. Ramsey and Board President Mrs. Robert E. Speer (respectively) explained that the report, Toward a New Economic Society, was no work of their organizations but a pamphlet published by the Economics Commission of the National Council of Student Christian Associations...