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Akron naturally has rubber odors [TIME, June 6]. It is hardly fair, however, to refer to the "pervading stench" of Akron. ... If you must insist upon enlarging on the factory odors and the "flatlands" you should in fairness mention the odorless highlands of Goodyear Heights, one of our outstanding workingmen's developments of East Akron...
...success selling Eskimo Pies. Then he went to Brooklyn and entered banking. In 1929, he started in National Safety Bank & Trust Co., rose like spring sap to vice president. Whereupon he invented the CheckMaster Plan for handling checking accounts, a system which has been sufficiently imitated for him to refer to it, with fine Slavic enthusiasm, as "the only major development in deposit banking in the last quarter-century...
...this ought to be an occasion of some solemnity, but I can't feel it so. No one so far has paid any attention to Judge Davis, who is lamentably lame in one regard." He turned to the fourth ancient, Judge J. Warren Davis, 71, not retiring. "I refer to his robe, which for years has been the despair and humiliation of every one connected with this Court. It is a sad commentary on the administration of justice, and the concern over it has reached way down to his native State of North Carolina. Before we hand over...
Among scientists the theories of Sigmund Freud are still disputed, most vigorously by former. Freudians. But modern novelists have followed him like children after the Pied Piper. His influence has been the greatest single factor in determining the course of modern fiction, and future literary historians may well refer to Joyce and Mann as great Freudians in the way that Thackeray and George Eliot are now called great Victorians. Freud has exercised a greater literary influence than any other living writer. His 35 volumes are packed with literary allusions, with shrewd criticisms on poetry and fiction, with case histories that...
...There is a ceaseless stream of propaganda going about the country that transgresses all the bounds of reason and sobriety. I refer to statements being made by responsible parties that efforts are being made to force Southern white Methodists into an organization where intermarriage between races is planned...