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...young Buffalo assistant district attorney, Grover Cleveland managed to save enough out of his $10-a-week pay to send Susan, one of his five sisters, to college. Sister Susan has always appreciated the education her brother gave her, has conscientiously kept up her interest in national affairs. She fought in the front line of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, spoke out for the League of Nations...
...members of the company had been "conscripted" by the radical militia and put to work giving five shows a day for militiamen with the threat that anyone who refused to dance, sing or wisecrack would be considered a "Fascist" and shot. Said Miss Miller: "Everyone, ham actors and $500-a-week stars, were paid exactly $1 each per day, plus a meal ticket. We could eat on our tickets at the Ritz Hotel. Barcelona is one of the gayest spots today, because the Reds have rounded up so much talent." Stalemate- Elsewhere in Spain last week the armies of conservative...
...Twice they attempted to remove the nail without a Chevalier Jackson bronchoscope. Both attempts failing, they wrote to Dr. Jackson. He told them to send the child to Philadelphia, that the nail would be removed gratis. Soon Kelvin Arthur Rodgers and his pleasant young mother, wife of a $20-a-week mechanic, were on their way (TIME, June...
...veterans voiced annoyance when 20-year-old Robert Harold Ickes, son of Federal Public Works Administrator Harold Le Clair Ickes, after graduation from Lake Forest (Ill.) College, appeared in Medford, Mass, with a letter from his father which landed him a $29-a-week job as an inspection clerk on a $3,000,000 PWA sewer project...
Father of the quadruplets, a German-born carpenter who two weeks ago had obtained a $20-a-week railroad shop job after 18 months' unemployment, was far from pleased to learn that the number of his offspring had risen from two to six overnight. Sourly he observed: "That's big news." Then he went back to work, angry because he was an hour late...