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...president of a great life insurance company, and for no good reason except that it "does not seem as large." Consider, however, the New York Life Insurance Co.: it has assets of $1,789,000,000 (only three U. S. banks, Chase, Guaranty Trust and National City, surpass it in resources). The president of this 86-year-old corporation is a person of importance. When he goes in to his directors (on the second Wednesday of the month) there are among others present the Republican boss of New York (Charles Dewey Hilles), the chairman of a great railroad (Hale Holden...
...which he regards as far more American and alive than what is medieval and European. In particular he attacked the new Sterling Library, which Yale regards as her best piece of architecture. The essay says, "Few works can equal it as a monument of lifelessness and decadence none can surpass it in extravagance and falsity...
Inches here surpass fathoms of elevation. If the Lowell House dais had been a four inch depression instead, where dignitaries in dinner coats are served about a symbolic fountain of Florida water of five or ten watts even, the affront to democracy would have been extreme, and beyond measure regrettable...
...years the Chinese mint has been abuilding. Except for the Chinese inscriptions over the door it might be mistaken for the Treasury building at Washington. With a capacity of 40,000 coins per hour, it is said to surpass in speed all other mints whatsoever. Thus a rush order for 3,000,000 silver dollars to bribe a Chinese general could be turned out in 75 hours flat...
...regions conditions were indeed acute, Mr. Ochs said: "I am an optimist and I am glad I am one. ... I think the day is not far distant when there will be little or no excuse for unemployment, when the reward for industry, inventive genius and political wisdom will far surpass anything heretofore known in the history of the human race. We are on the threshold of a new world and the utilization of natural forces that were unthought of and undreamed of a few years ago. A new epoch of man, a conquest of nature, is just beginning...