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...Francis Gross, a retired Catholic priest of Perth Amboy, N. J., mopped his thick jowls in the torrid committee room as he told of an anti-Semitic pamphlet he had written called "Justice to Hungary, Germany and Austria." When his printer dunned him. Father Gross wrote him that none other than the Reich's Ambassador at Washington, Dr. Hans Luther, was his "sponsor, financial backer and promoter.'' The German Embassy, said Father Gross, had purchased 100 copies of his pamphlets at 70? each. The German Embassy retorted: ''It goes without saying that the German Ambassador...
Saks Fifth Avenue has long been a leader in swank merchandising, and its modernistic window dressing is a model for all alert storekeepers. Chief credit for the Saks' smartness is usually given to Herbert L. Redman, onetime printer's apprentice who emigrated from Great Britain at 20. Last week, haying titillated the classes for some ten years. Storekeeper Redman went downtown to see if he could excite the masses as managing director of Saks 34th Street. Back in Manhattan last week after a six-month trip around the world was Bernard E. ("Ben") Smith, gay, hard-bitten speculator...
Last week at Asheville, N. C. a Federal judge signed an order directing a U. S. marshal to take possession of all assets of Galahad Press, Inc. Galahad Press formally "averred" to the court that it should be declared bankrupt. Among its creditors a local printer claimed $2,695, an editor claimed $130 pay, a firm in Washington $111. This routine little failure was a blow to no great publisher, but it was a blow to a big man in the shirt business...
Motorman Franklin got his start as a printer's devil in Coxsackie, N. Y. some hundred miles from his birthplace in Lisle, Broome County. In the early 1890s he set himself up as H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Co., maker of die castings. Mechanically-minded young men of that time were absorbed in the automobile, and when John Wilkinson gave Herbert Franklin a ride in an air-cooled contraption he had just invented, Herbert Franklin decided to branch into the exciting new industry. In 1902 Motorman Franklin produced 13 automobiles priced at $1,100 each. Soon he ranked among...
Readers of the first installment were prepared by an editorial note for "inconsistencies in punctuation and spelling which appeared in the original manuscript, intended by Dickens only for the eyes of his children and not for the printer." What they were not prepared for was the anti-Fundamentalist credo in the second paragraph...