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...friends to his ill-health, a revelation which his age (44) and general appearance of pepticity made hard to believe. The McKee record is an extraordinary one, interpretable so ambiguously that even before he made his keynote address at Cooper Union last week it was both a boon and a handicap to him. Joseph McKee was born in Newark, raised in The Bronx. He worked his way through Fordham, taught there and at De Witt Clinton High School. He went to the State Assembly in 1918, became the youngest city Judge in 1924, youngest Aldermanic President in 1926. In that...
...Republican ticket in 1917, took a leave of absence when the War broke out. He corralled a group of impatient student aviators in Paris, took them to Italy where they peppered the Austrians with bombs and propaganda for 18 months. Having a Congressman for Major was a great boon to his men, who recall him with deep affection...
...York City, the workers were called out and lost a week to date to learn which of two unions had jurisdiction. It could have been decided while the work was going on. The workers cannot make up lost time with overtime. The NRA gave Labor its greatest boon, but it never warned Labor's leaders of their responsibilities. . . . When did the NRA say "Strike, then ask questions'"? The public certainly is damned by them...
...Central Association of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, meeting in Milwaukee last week, congratulated Mae West for popularizing plump female figures, called her style "a boon to motherhood...
...Garnett, a deranged Confederate veteran whom she had dismissed for obscenity in a whist game, attempted to shoot her in the Palace Hotel. A Major J. W. McLung who struggled with the man was shot and killed. The trial and all the life of Lily Hitchcock Coit were a boon to California journalism. On the advice of friends she went abroad, and abroad she stayed almost continuously until...