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Sweat, Blood, Loneliness. Senator McNary warmed up his 12,000 listening Oregonians with a salute to the Oregon Trail. In a country where pioneers' picnics are an annual event and where the wheel marks of wagon trails still show near Emigrant Springs Park, that is as necessary as a tribute to Robert E. Lee once was in the South. But the Senator, who still farms land that he worked on as a boy, called it the iron road, the name given it by the people who followed it - "from the Great Bend of the Missouri to the banks...
...Pontiac station wagon shuttles Shirley from school to her house in fashionable Brentwood, where she scampers about with her onetime stand-in (Mary Lou Isleib), Harold Lloyd's two daughters, the Brentwood Campfire Girls, Westlake schoolmates. Fortnight ago home was made more interesting by the completion of an elaborate playhouse with an auditorium seating 85, a room for her collection of rare dolls, a basement with bowling alley and ping-pong table, a room for framing and filing prize fan mail...
William Joseph Donovan never got past the second grade in school. He bummed around his native Chicago for a while, finally got work as a wagon boy for an express company. At 15 he became an organizer for a tough Chicago teamsters' union. That year (1905) the teamsters put on one of the bloodiest general strikes in Chicago's history. Bill Donovan came out of it a proven labor organizer...
...displaced executives scraped together $13,000, started a spread house called Cabin Crafts Co. which now does the industry's largest single business - about $1,000,000 a year. These men brought professional designers into the industry, and even installed a few tufting machines - locally made out of wagon wheels. But the newcomers generally stuck to the system of sending spreads out to mountain families for tufting. Around Dalton, some 15,000 backwoods people took part. Children, expectant mothers, even hillbillies in their voluminous spare time, would do a little tufting. Families sometimes made $30 a week, smart money...
First dealings of Adman Maxon and his new client occurred 25 years ago. At that time young Maxon was proprietor of a lunch wagon outside the Ford plant in Highland Park. One of his best pint-of-milk customers was Henry Ford. After a try at pro football with a pickup team of former Carlisle Indians, Maxon spent a year as advertising manager of Detroit's R. H. Fyfe & Co. ("America's Largest Shoe Store"), then became assistant city editor of the old Detroit Journal. He was fired for palming off a phony story on the city editor...