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President's Friend. For Collier's, where he succeeded Norman Hapgood as editor in 1912, Journalist Sullivan journeyed often to Washington, wrote a department called "Comment on Congress." For Teddy Roosevelt, of whom he became friend & adviser as well as worshiper, the young journalist hurled his pen into the Progressive fight. He crusaded for Pure Food and for Conservation. He lambasted "Standpattism" and "Cannonism." He fought for low tariffs and direct primaries. In those zestful days young Mark Sullivan was indeed, as old Mark Sullivan has described him in Our Times, "a fierce young eagle of the press...
Before Automatic Signal had sold a single light, Yaleman Garland decided to give his heretical business theories a thorough workout. At a pen's stroke he wrote up the value of the patent to a flat $1,000,000. Then he transferred the patent to a new concern of his own, granting the original operating company a manufacturing license, carried on their books at $3,250,000. Affiliates, dummies, acceptance companies, holding companies, securities companies began to sprout like weeds. And the patent was given another boost, this time...
...record the event for posterity a horrified Ickes press-agent spied, clinging to one Indian's ancestral costume, what seemed to be a thoroughly anachronistic price tag. In a flurry of embarrassment the chieftain's tag was ripped off while Secretary Ickes, covering up, seized a pen and hurriedly squiggled his signature to the constitution...
Under drastic orders from Il Duce not to "go native" in Ethiopia are Italian soldiers. Last week the war brides and wives they left behind received "Ten Commandments," signed not by the Dictator, but by "Benedetta," announced to be the pen name of the wife of a prominent Fascist. Commanded Benedetta...
Aged 38 and the vivacious mother of four, Benedetta confided to friends that she was moved to pen her ten commandments by emotion at the arrival on the Ethiopian front last week of her 59-year-old vivacious husband, "The Founder of Futurism," Millionaire-Poet Filippo Tomaso Marinetti (TIME...