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...Flag Day, was designed to appeal to Americans of Italian ancestry. Main speakers: two Italian urchins from Greenwich Village (one planned to exercise his U. S. freedom of initiative to become a prizefighter) and Italian-born New York City Treasurer Commendatore Almerindo Portfolio, who rose from a $2-a-week messenger to the presidency of the Bank of Sicily and the head of a cloak & suit concern (which in 1924 he gave to six employes). Commendatore Portfolio's talk was rapturous, anti-nobody, fairly brief...
Author Kyra Goritzina and her husband, Sergei, are White emigres from Russia, where they "lost nearly all that is dear to anyone-country, home, family, wealth and social standing." Soon as they arrived in the U. S., in 1923, Sergei was offered a $250-a-week job as an actor, in Mowris Gest's pantomime, The Miracle. But he quit during rehearsals. To him and his wife the play was "sheer blasphemy," its point appalling and incomprehensible. They found it hard to believe that "the Mother of God would deceive people just to protect the sins...
...crumbling NRA, which he had served as director of Research and Planning, chief economist, member of its short-lived National Industrial Recovery Board. He subsequently fell so low that in 1936 he had to ask Democratic Press-agent Charlie Michelson for a $50-a-week job with the Democratic National Campaign Committee in Manhattan...
Ginger Rogers was named Virginia Katherine McMath. Shortly after her birth, her mother separated from her electrical engineer husband, Eddins McMath, and, taking small Ginger, went to Kansas City, where she got a $9-a-week job as typist in Montgomery Ward. Thereafter Ginger's childhood was nomadic. Jobs took her mother all over the country but always nearer the movies. In 1919, Mrs. McMath, by this time divorced, married a Dallas insurance man named John Rogers. In 1922 the family moved to Fort Worth...
...Tralee where bespectacled, 25-year-old Francis Chamberlain, only son of the Prime Minister, was on holiday. Most Britons had forgotten that the Chamberlains had a son; British picture agencies, deluged with requests for his photograph had none. Young Chamberlain has been employed for a year as a $25-a-week apprentice at the Witton plant of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., where he is learning the armament business from the bottom...