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...partnership of these two strong men is a big story of U. S. journalism. Scott was a big, brusque, walrus-faced fighter, who read Horace for diversion and stepped up to bars in a long frock coat and high silk hat to call for a shot of straight whiskey. Pittock was barely five feet tall, with a goat-beard, cool, abstemious and calculating. In his later years he loved to ride a horse at the head of parades because it flattered his disproportionately large head and shoulders. Brought from England by his printer father when he was four, he went...
Printed on fine paper the original scroll was six feet, eight inches long, and two feet, 5-16 inches in width, but years of deterioration have reduced it to a mere fragment of three feet in length. It was remounted, when discovered, on a substantial silk cloth...
Inez Callaway Robb's career has been the kind every pencil-nibbling journalism-school co-ed dreams about. California-born and Idaho-raised, she earned her first silk stockings scribbling high-school notes for the city editor of the Boise Capital News, a next-door neighbor. After a course at University of Missouri's famed School of Journalism, she landed a reporting job on the Tulsa World, pasted everything she wrote into a scrapbook. One day, between trains in Chicago, she dropped into the Tribune office, left the scrapbook. Within a fortnight she had a wire from...
...occupants had no qualms at all. If the Chewtobaccos, the big bosses, said they were safe, they must be safe. Their faith in democracy was often demonstrated just as literally. Because a giant worker heard that workers were equal with the rich, he carried a mattress, white sheets, wore silk pajamas, and one derisive titter at this display was worth a titterer's life. Brooding one time over a ludicrously unfounded case of discrimination, he asked Stoyan, the gang's spokesman, to complain to President Wilson. Then Stoyan refused, this giant lost a lot of faith in democracy...
...Macy, James McCutcheon and James McCreery, Manhattan department stores, agreed to stop advertising as "silk" products which were not. Colt Shoes, Boston, promised to qualify the statement that Colt shoes are hand-lasted and keep feet healthy. Letellier-Phillips Paper Co. of New Orleans, the South's wastepaper dictator whose small competitors tattled, was ordered to cease and desist from maintaining a monopoly by intimidation and boycott of competitors...