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...Russell Eugene Gardner of St. Louis formed Banner Buggy Co. out of which grew Gardner Motor Co. In 1924 Russell Eugene Gardner Jr. replaced his father in the driver's seat as president, attempted to quicken Gardner's pace by abandoning fours for sixes and eights. But Gardner's sales have shrunk, its fuel reserve of cash has been drained to almost nothing, for four years it has operated at a loss. Motor men do not blame Gardner's withdrawal on poor driving so much as on the difficulty for any small producer to survive because of high production costs...
...Heretofore when the Red Cross asked for disaster money, contributions swiftly reached $1,000,000 daily. Last week, after nearly three weeks' appeal for the $10,000,000, receipts totaled $4,883,159. Over the radio Chairman Payne pleaded: "Drought presses slowly. There is nothing in it to quicken the emotions- unless one sees with his own eyes the gaunt hunger and hopelessness of those affected...
...hand and the forces of liquor and lawlessness on the other." Dr. Leonard Gaston Broughton (a doctor of medicine as well as of divinity), also of Atlanta, had urged them: to support that "oldtime Baptist spiritual Evangelism to preach the doctrine of sin and salvation, and quicken the backslidden churches and reach the unsaved. . . . Those intellectual, or handpicked, or gumshoe Evangelisms in which some are trying to reflect upon our mass or church revivals, we will oppose...
...long conflict with the opium traffic, his enthusiastic interest in international affairs, which made the students feel in him a man who had had a share in the great life of the world, who brought to them the ripe fruit of experience and sought to quicken in them devotion to the life in God and for men, the life which he himself so ardently lived...
...other ingredients of operettas and romance, the theory and practices of the Junior Dance passed through an extremely drab period this winter. That gloomiest two weeks in January marked likewise the high point of opposition; since then, appeal to the class as a tribunal has brought enough Ayes to quicken the rejuvenation and to maintain for at least this year the tradition of the Dance...