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...have a political career he had to be dramatized. So he acquired a curious jack-of-all-political-trades named Samuel Davis Wilson. Mr. Wilson began issuing statements for Controller Hadley that made news: How city funds bought a barber's chair for City Solicitor Augustus Trask ("Dandy Gus) Ashton; how Coroner Schwarz got a $25 desk pad, and a $25 wastebasket. And presently Mr. Wilson, although no member of the Bar, was allowed by a friendly judge personally to argue a big traction suit in which he was opposed by some of Philadelphia's best corporation lawyers...
That the disease now raising fears along the Eastern seaboard may not be infantile paralysis at all is a medical thought that has been trying to intrude itself for the past several weeks. Last week shock-haired Dr. John Augustus Toomey, children's specialist of Cleveland's Western Reserve University, impatiently declared that many of the cases must have been "gastro-neuritis with spinal fluid changes." This seems to be a newly recognized disease. Its symptoms-pain in head and upper abdomen, pain on movement, increase of certain cells in spinal fluid and blood-pass quickly. There...
Married. Cassius M. Clay, counsel for RFC's rail division; and Miriam Blossom Berle, 37, teacher, sister of New York City Chamberlain and onetime Brain Truster Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. (TIME, March 12, 1934); in Boscawen...
...wordy descriptions of Montana scenery, gave him little experience for the great problems he was to face: he ran a coal yard, made about $5,000 a year, married quietly and happily, did a little gambling in mining claims on the side. Inspired by the reckless career of F. Augustus Heinze, who was matching wits with Butte copper kings at the age of 21, Thompson traveled East to peddle his claims. Wall Street would not listen, State Street was almost as inhospitable, and he was nearly at the end of his resources when he managed to get an option...
Elected. Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh, 33: trustee of the Carnegie Institute of Washington. D. C.; for his research activities at Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Manhattan (TIME, July...