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...even break, I am going to put everybody involved in jail!" Seeking a case to peg a general assault on the whole corrupt kosher poultry racket, Attorney Foley clapped his fright- ened witnesses in prison, set their bail at $25,000 apiece. When two days later, an unknown benefactor turned up with their bond, the partners became thoroughly alarmed. "We don't want to go out," they anxiously told Mr. Foley. "None of our people bailed us out. We want to stay in." Mr. Foley found that the same man who had arranged bail for one of the defendants...
...students), makes it resemble a small college. Of late its physical expansion has been remarkable. Out of the alumni spirit which Headmaster Stearns succeeded in evoking grew the benefactions of Andover's most notable latterday friend, Morgan Partner Thomas Cochran. Football player, classmate of Headmaster Stearns (1890), Benefactor Cochran was a leader in establishing a pool from which the school has received $11,000,000 in anonymous donations. He gave $1,000,000 for maintaining the trees and shrubs on Andover Hill; a fund for sabbaticals for the older teachers, the Addison Gallery of American Art (TIME...
...Each was signed "In Verehrung gewidmet"-dedicated in adoration-"Edwin Krenn, Arch. 1920." The vultures' eyes gleamed. Little Edwin Krenn, Swiss architect, Chicago real estate promoter, was the adoring friend of the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick. The plates were etched in Zurich, seven years after he met his benefactor, and they had been sent over to the rummage shop with a load of Mrs. McCormick's lesser belongings. The etchings went fast. The price rose from $2 to $3.50, and soon after reporters and cameramen had publicized them, the last had been snapped up at $5. From...
...priced crooners were doubtless astonished last week to learn that comparatively unknown singers in Broadway night clubs had been paid such prices for the past 13 years. But Messrs. Downey & Vallee must have been relieved to know that it was not the nightclub proprietors who paid. Exposed as anonymous benefactor to dozens of night club crooners was one George D. Phelan, 39-year-old employe of J. S. Bache & Co., Manhattan brokers...
...reason for the fence beside which "Bull" Durham has stood alone for so many years. This legend is that the original "Bull" was offensive to the ladies of the Durham, N. C. Methodist Churches and through their Aid Societies they appealed to Mr. James Buchanan ["Buck"] Duke, the late benefactor of Duke University, and himself a devout Methodist, and Mr. Duke, like California Educational Director Edward Lloyd Lomax appeased the ladies by erecting a fence hiding the objections...