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Many of the Stinnes concerns are now being sold, owing to industrial depression following the Ruhr occupation and the operation of the Experts' Plan, and more particularly to quarrels between the two Stinnes sons (TIME, June 29) and the confusion in which their sire left his enormous and varied holdings...
...that obliging gentlemen with receipt-books were willing to offer $10 to every $1 of yours that Prince of Bourbon would not win the race. But if you thought that American Flag, for instance-swift son of Man o' War-or By Hisself, another son of that famed sire-were faster than Kentucky Cardinal, Marconi, Backbone, Swope, Dangerous, you would have to put up more money to win less. Various opinions Upon this state of affairs were expressed in U. S. currency or friendly promises. The horses went to the barrier, leapt away...
...Chauncey M. Depew, onetime ubiquitous, silver-tongued herald of the Republican Party, said (of Coolidge) : "His own platform and his own campaign" ; (of Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt) : "The same sound timber in the son as in the honored sire...
Weary of the inaccurate photographic representation his father's countenance had received in the newspapers, the son of a U. S. Senator for a Western State sent TIME what he felt to be an adequate picture of his sire. He requested that TIME use this picture if and when it became necessary for the Senator to appear before the public...
...disappointment. His own compositions which he has conducted have been feeble and uninteresting; and his interpretations of his father's music have been savagely criticized- The disappointment does not arise entirely from his lack of genius, but rather from his failure to present the true tradition of his sire. It was supposed that he knew how his father wanted the music presented. This expectation, however, ignored 'the fact that Siegfried was only 13 years of age when his father died...