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...September 13, the Regents' rules were refined further by William Jansen, New York City superintendent of schools. Jansen published a complex reporting system; principals were to testify on their teachers, assistant superintendents on principals, and so on up to the apex: the city's Board of Education...
Fifteen years later Blum stood at the apex of his career-the Socialist leader of the Popular Front. He had never liked the Communists but, uneasily, he allied himself with them against the rising menace of fascism. His long legs and long nose, stringy mustache and thick-lensed spectacles, wide-brimmed hat and spats were targets of caricaturists of Right and Left. Once Royalist hoodlums dragged him from his car and beat him up; he refused to prosecute them. In 1936 the Popular Front carried the elections. Leon Blum took the premiership...
...father used to tell me the Lampoon building is on wet ground and that it sinks a few inches each spring," she said. Indeed, every time there is a rain, a massive puddle forms around the apex of the Poon, cutting it off from the outside world...
...Divan. This week Lloyd, convalescing from a serious gall-bladder operation, stood at another satisfying apex of his life. He had given himself unstintingly to Shrine activities. He had been Al Malaikah Temple's Potentate. For the past seven years he had worked among the Shrine's crippled children's hospitals, had been a director and trustee of that program, which is a substantial and sober part of Shrine activities. It maintains 16 hospitals, annually raises millions of dollars through its circuses, East-West football game, annual dues and local contributions...
...competitors had not done so well. Westinghouse's net dropped $2.2 million to $10,866,921. Apex Electrical Mfg. Co. slipped from a $493,836 net into a $381,261 deficit, and other appliance makers felt that the worst was still to come...