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...soon bought out his partner. In 1880 he soared to the top of the brawling harvester business with a twine binder which he picked up from one John F. Appleby. Twine binders did not cut into the wheat or, like wire binders, kill cattle that happened to eat a strand. Struggling little Northwestern University, founded by Methodists, learned early to count on pious, prosperous William Deering. From 1876 until his death in 1913 William gave Northwestern $1,000,000 in 55 small but steady driblets. Most of his $15,000,000 estate he walled to his two sons, Charles...
...Angeles, a municipal court ruled that the Strand Theatre pay $400 to the winner of a Bank Night prize who had failed to claim it in the specified three minutes, although he had been in the Strand Theatre at the time the prize was announced...
...thinks her Empire still is the Strand and Holborn Hill, And she didn't think of Sergeant Whats-isname...
This tribute to the Realmleader, tossed off three months ago by the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill in a potboiling piece for Vincent Astor's Today, went unnoticed by German diplomats in the U. S. last August. When it potboiled up again in London's Strand Magazine (which had bought it from Mr. Churchill, to whom the British rights were released on Sept. 18 by Today), the fat of cherubic "Winnie" was in the fire last week. Reason: Statesman Churchill in the interval has made his peace with British Prime Minister Baldwin and Germans, like everyone else, understood that...
...unable to hold his own temper? Could the brilliant and tender Quaker who rebuilt human Belgium and France, who rebuilt and re-established the lives of the families of his late enemies, be an angry man? Could the untiring diplomatist and spiritual servant who never let one strand of his delicate relationships between militarists and nationalists and intriguers, drunk warlords and war-led, sadists, sentimentalists, victors and victims be endangered by his own indignations-could that be a man given to the passion of anger? . . . You might as effectively speak of an angry Lincoln or an angry Christ himself...