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Expert In Rackets. Again Bishop Garbett resolutely dug in. A bachelor, he struggled with the malnutritive budgets of swarming slum families. He became an expert in the manipulations of loan sharks, mastered the ins & outs of rent piracy. Today the benign Archbishop of York probably knows more at first hand about rackets, gambling and liquor than any other man in England. He studied the problem of permanent unemployment as voluminously as and at much closer quarters than prolix Beatrice & Sidney Webb (Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain). Through the Church he encouraged interdenominational efforts to spread social service...
...eyed, soft-spoken director of the Army's Readjustment Division. Born in Pottstown, Pa., Colonel Hauseman graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, was a lieutenant in World War I. He liked the Army, stayed to become an ordnance expert. On various sabbaticals he collected degrees from Massachusetts Tech (Bachelor of Science) and Harvard (Master of Business Administration). Temple University contributed an honorary science degree. In the '30s he blueprinted much of the Army's present program as chief of the planning division for army ordnance. Later, as boss of the Philadelphia Ordnance District, he boosted production...
...storekeeper, in South Orange, N.J. When the small, self-made millionaire sold out to Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. in 1929 his store's annual sales had reached $40,000,000, his farewell gifts to 235 veteran employes totaled more than $1,000,000. In 1930 Bachelor Bamberger (and his sister, Mrs. Felix Fuld) gave Educator Abraham Flexner $5,000,000 to found Princeton's famed Institute For Advanced Study...
Twofers. In Topeka, Kans., Pete Reilly got an idea for a war-bond rally from an 1878 newspaper item: "Hug socials are now the rage. It costs 10? to hug anyone between 15 and 20, 5? from 20 to 30, $1 to hug another man's wife, bachelor girls two for a nickel, and woman lectur ers free with a chromo thrown...
...Singh, 46, is a 6-ft, handsome Sikh from Kashmir, a confirmed bachelor, and a British subject. He came to the U.S. in 1926 to operate India's concession at Philadelphia's Sesquicentennial Exposition. He ended up too broke for passage home, stayed on, is now a successful, fluent New York importer...