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...cigar (labeled "Luxury"), and crushing beneath its heel a pathetic lizard-sized person (labeled "Consumer"). Since 1905, that figure has appeared more and more rarely, but last week he suffered a recrudescence. He was called "Flower Trust." U. S. Attorney Buckner of Southern New York, brought action under the Sherman Law to dissolve an alleged combination of flower growers in a dozen states and 40 wholesale dealers in flowers. It was claimed this was organized to compel the people of Manhattan to buy only hothouse flowers, thus cutting out of the market the flowers of the woods and fields...
...Chicago the President and his party were met at the station by an escort of 100 uniformed policemen, and whisked away to the Hotel Sherman Annex. There they were quartered in a two-story bungalow just completed on the roof of the hotel, 300 feet above the street, on the 27th story, with a garden, fountain, dining room, reception hall and four bedrooms. The bedrooms were of no great use to the President, because he arrived early in the morning, went to the bungalow for a couple of hours, addressed the Farm Bureau Federation in the ballroom of the hotel...
...Stuart Sherman, once professor at Illinois, now editor of the book review of the New York Herald Tribune thus places the gentleman of the faculty in his niche to gather dust, and turns to another "Letter to a Lady...
...within a few weeks and in many journals contented professors will reply. But can they--with candor? The shoes Mr. Sherman mentions are old, the C-men many. Yet the real professor, a fellow of research, a leader of youth, though he must dislike the old shoes, likes the C-men. For by sincere effort he can make them "B" men--if not in college, at least in life. His calling is hard. The need of improving it remains the ghost in American academic closets. But if he is a true teacher he will enjoy it--enjoy it far more...
...Child Culture Club of Ogden, Utah, asked, not Mr. Coollidge, President of the U. S., but Mrs. John D. Sherman, President of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the following question: Is it disrespectful to refer to the President of the United States...