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...Shipping Board and its special representative for the trip, Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, William Vincent Astor, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth (daughter of the late Theodore Roosevelt), Representative Martin B. Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, and in the second cabin John W. Slack, postal machinery manufacturer of Silver Creek, N. Y., who recently made unprecedented "fake" bid of $1,000,000, 000 for the entire Government fleet...
Some weeks past the country was astonished to learn that a bid of $1,051,000,000 had been made for the whole U. S. Government Merchant Marine. It was at first suspected that the bidder, John W. Slack of Silver Creek, N. Y., was acting for Henry Ford. The bid was obviously fictitious and was not seriously considered in Washington. Mr. Slack's name, however, as well as the name of his native town of Silver Creek, N. Y., received instant and widespread publicity...
Last week Mr. Slack, in an article in The New York Times, while still somewhat artificially protesting his sincerity, reveals his purpose, in which he was to a degree successful, of getting three million dollars' worth of publicity for nothing. Mr. Slack claims his action was a "rebuke" to the Government-just how is not clear. The whole affair must be classed with the enormous but fictitious check recently sent to Mayor Hylan to pay the expenses of the Civic Jubilee. Meanwhile Slack, event if he has not made himself famous, has at least gained a temporary but universal...
Wall Street is betting 5 to 2 on Dempsey over Gibbons, with interest slack and little money in sight...
...down together. But labor imported from the European peasantry to aid an American business boom cannot go back to Europe when the boom is over. It has to stay, be assimilated and Americanized. This was possible as long as there was free land to take up the slack. But that outlet is now gone, and the result for the last 20 years has been the abnormal crowding of cities with unassimilated and partially employed foreigners, with all the attendant political and social evils...