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...vanity or patriotic zeal, employed the man years ago. Heney secured the confessions of a number of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco. Holding these confessions like blades of Damocles he "ruled" the city in accordance with the instructions of Client Spreckles. It became a "government by injunction." Tsar Spreckles, said the Los Angeles Times, "sat in his palatial home and delivered his ukases." When Heney ran for District Attorney he was soundly drubbed...
Hugo Stinnes, 54 years of age, was an emperor of finance, a tsar of industry, a king of business. His minions were princes and grand-dukes, his serving men were lords. His interests were as far-flung as the seven seas. His business was no one thing in particular, but everything in general. He dealt in trusts of super-trusts or trusts of trusts of trusts. It has been said that "when you were in Germany the trains and ships on which you travelled, the hotels you lived at, the shops you bought from, the newspapers you read, the banks...
...think we can now say we will not make any serious concessions of any material character to our opponents. We shall present our counter claims. A couple of years ago we undoubtedly could have bought recognition for a good price, such as the partial acknowledgment of the Tsar's debts or large concessions to foreign capital. Now we have received recognition without paying a penny or delivering a single carload of raw material...
Engaged. Miss Glory Thomas, daughter of Augustus Thomas, "theatre tsar," to William Elliott, Jr., of Manhattan...
...MYSTERY IN ASIA?Ferdinand Ossendowski ? Dutton ($3.00). The Polish author-scientist-sportsman who has already interested the American people in his Beasts, Men, and Gods here narrates some of his earlier adventures on the same continent. Employed by the Tsar's government in investigating salt lakes, coal mines, gold deposits, Dr. Ossendowski was obliged to make long trips into the Kalunda and Bateni steppes, into the Altai Mountains, to the convict island of Sakhalin, into the extraordinary Ussurian country where the tropical tiger roams in the same forest as the reindeer and the northern goose and the Indian flamingo...