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Convict Hitler and eight others receive the light sentence of detention in a fortress where they have connecting rooms. During his ten-month sojourn there, Prisoner Hitler pens the 800 bombastic pages of Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"). Says the warden as they part: "I too, Herr Hitler, am now a Nazi...
After paying a ten dollar infirmary fee at the beginning of the year, a student is often surprised and annoyed when he receives a bill from one of the University doctors following a short sojourn in Stillman infirmary, and his annoyance will not decrease if a few days later some friend informs him that he has spent several weeks in the same place without paying a cent...
...Ambassador, John North Willys, who wisely sold his common stock for $20,000,000 in 1929, was home from Poland and again in control of his company because it had passed its fourth consecutive preferred dividend. He is living in his Fifth Avenue home in Manhattan, but the sojourn has been punctuated by many trips to Toledo where he stays at the Toledo Club and goes to his factory at 8 a. m., often remaining until midnight. Willys-Overland is bidding sharply for a place in the less-than-$500 field...
...Vagabond, returning to his proper business after a too long sojourn in fields remote, has been meditating on certain great men of the past. He has run his eye over the scroll of worthies, all great men in their time, sons of thunder, shakers of the earth,--and now forgotten. Like all of the Vagabond's musings, this one had an external stimulus and efficient cause, though the upshot is as the spirit listeth. For the Vagabond has been casually reading some minor English poets, men whose names are known to all, their works to none, or whose immortality...
...sketch of the sojourn in America puts these discoveries in their proper setting. Though it does not pretend to be a complete account of a visit on which much has already been written, it will be of interest to those who know only the writings of a philosopher who was gifted of "every virtue under Heaven," and actively interested in the westward course of Empire...