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...tiny garden situated upon the sunny expanse of the Square of Quiretti. in Rome, workmen erected a fountain whose light waters were to dance into the air and fall in a shower of silver sparks. The fountain was in the form of human figures, incompletely clothed; around the Square of Quiretti are numerous convents and educational institutions. The inmates of these houses disliked the fountain because of the nudity of its statuary; not long after its erection, Pope Pius XI himself sent deputies into the sunny plaza to gaze upon the fountain and determine the degree of its propriety...
...giving him one. "France owes you too much. Let me pay my part of the debt," said the sales manager. M. Clemenceau accepted the automobile and sent a check for 10,000 francs ($400) to the factory where it was made, to be distributed among the most needy workmen...
...word from Germany that these visits are the causes of new misery. Some time ago, Professor Stock, famed Berlin chemist, published an article on the dangers of using amalgam* for fillings. One Professor His then decided to study the problem in his medical clinic. He took a group of workmen who had contact with mercury in their daily occupation, a group of patients whose only contact with mercury was the fillings of their teeth, a group of school dentists and dental nurses, who rolled and kneaded the amalgam. He found...
Amsterdam is the city of drab workmen who cut and polish brightest diamonds, the home of landlubbing watermen who pole barges along slow canals, the habitat of buxom and sensible stenographers who pedal to work each morning upon thousands of bicycles. Amsterdam, in short, is the last place where one would expect to hear-during the decent forenoon hours, and from a stately mansion-a sequence of revolver shots...
...most important stockholders of the Bethlehem Steel are its workmen. I never made a cent out of Bethlehem Steel. It's just been a labor of love and all I have tried to do is drive a peg to mark progress in human relations...