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...frocks. Last week a medical examination showed her to be pregnant, and according to the County Prosecutor, Groom Backus confessed to having seduced her. He was arrested for second-degree rape. Said Mrs. Backus, posing for photographs in apparent enjoyment of home life on her husband's $25-a-week salary: "People ought to mind their own business." Three days later Leona's father was jailed, accused of fraud in obtaining the birth certificate on which her marriage license was based...
...Technology Charles Hayden specialized in economics and mining engineering. Fore seeing the expansion of electrical power, he made up his mind to get rich in copper. Charles Hayden proposed to do so not by mining copper but by speculating in copper. Year after graduation he took a $3-a-week job as a "ticker boy" to learn the inside of a broker's office. At 21 he was ready to borrow $20,000 from his father, launch his own brokerage business with his officemate Galen L. Stone, whose Milk Street friends put up another $20,000. Hayden, Stone...
Carl Roden was brought from his father's Kansas City grocery to Chicago in the '703, got his first job as a $5-a-week page in the Library in 1886, when it occupied the third floor of the old City Hall. Today, from his marble-walled office in the Library building on the gusty lake front, Librarian Roden watches over 45 branches, serves 12,000,000 readers a year. In 1931 he ran the biggest circulating municipal library in the U. S., with 16,000,000 issues, but with declining appro priations Chicago's has yielded...
...forcing her to appear at a Manhattan Jefferson Day dinner attended by President Roosevelt, Warner Brothers had violated her $3,000-a-week contract, claimed Cinemactress Bette Davis in a packed London courtroom of the King's Bench Division, where her U. S. employers were suing to stop her from fulfilling a $50,000 British film engagement. "As this contract stands," pleaded her lawyer, "Miss Davis could not become a waitress in a restaurant or an assistant in a hair dresser's shop in the wilds of Africa. . . ." Observed Sir Patrick Hastings, bewigged barrister for Vice President Jack...
...March grew up in Canton, Ohio, played football at Mt. Union College in 1893, became a reporter for the Canton Repository. When William McKinley, a friend of his Army officer father, campaigned for the Presidency, Reporter March joined him, followed him to Washington, landed a job there as $7-a-week assistant to Dramatic Critic Channing Pollock. When McKinley advised him that newspaper reporters were lounge lizards, he studied medicine, went back to Canton to practice. Meanwhile he played or watched hundreds of football games when the best professionals were such characters as Christy Mathewson, Fielding Yost, Walter Okeson, Knute...