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...characters, could write a good tale about the department-store business. Draw a composite hero-a Marshall Wannamacy. Have him crash his way up from running errands for a scrimping haberdasher to running the business of his own sterling Emporium. Make Wannamacy-or William Watling- quaint as well as Rotarian, eccentric as well as honest. A terse, explosive talker. When he is old, give him a struggle to keep his winnings, a nervous breakdown in the crisis. That gets sympathy. It will be more easily visualized if you locate the Emporium in London. Your love theme will be Watling...
...Dean Garner of the Northeastern business school in Chicago. And business English is short and "Kicky". At last the lie is passed to Shakespeare, Browne, and Johnson, and all the other foreigners who talked over the businessman's head: they didn't write good English. The son of the Rotarian may henceforth plead scot-free of Milton: he didn't write good English...
...Fascisti and voted to petition the President to refuse an interview to "reactionaries and enemies of labor." At the same meeting a Laborite protested against a proposed invitation to U. S. Rotary Clubs to hold a convention in Mexico City next year. He said that "silk-hatted, frock-coated Rotarian Fascisti from the United States were no less enemies of a socialistic revolutionary nation than the black-shirted Italians." The protest was carried amid roars of applause. The labor unions are determined to uphold their viewpoint-with a general strike if necessary...
...Rotary Clubs of Boston and Greater Boston will hold a Harvard Night this evening beginning at 6.30 o'clock, with a dinner at the Harvard Union. This dinner is open to any student of any department of the University who is, or who has been a Rotarian, if notice is given today to the office of Professor Albert Bushnell Hart...
President Lowell, President Eliot, and other representatives of the University will address the meeting after dinner. Any student of any department of the University who is, or who has been a Rotarian, may attend, if notice is given to the office of Professor Albert Bushnell Hart '80 not later than Monday, January 8. Men who wish to attend may reach Professor Hart by calling University...