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...nasty trick of war, a "big Wop from Peoria," Tony Rickey, became the hero of this story. In boyhood, he was a bootblack. In youth, he founded the National Bug-Killer Co., which rented to thousands of farmers, by mail, a machine guaranteed to kill each & every insect or worm. The machine consisted of two blocks of wood-"you put the bug you wanted to kill on one block and squashed him with the other." Rental $2. Tony disappeared when the Postoffice got inquisitive, and left Deacon Miscombe holding the bag. In War, Aviator Tony annoyed a German sausage balloon...
Said J. Finley Wilson, Grand Exalted Ruler: "I am a native of Tennessee. Came from the ranks?bellboy, newsboy, bootblack, hotel waiter, head waiter, cowboy, miner, newspaper reporter, editor, publisher, president of the Negro Press Association, and was elected four times by acclamation. ... I put in our splendid education and health programs. I stand on my record. Let others climb on the bandwagon! Organization is my slogan...
...succeed in winning the game. I scored five out of eleven. In question number four, it would be interesting to know where the bootblack obtained the whiskey and other stimulants, in case we ever visit the Senate and have need of them. I would appreciate very much a copy of TIME, as I have never heard of it until tonight...
...stood about a chair. In the chair he found his Democratic friend, Senator Andrieus Aristieus Jones of New Mexico, white and immobile. "An attack" spluttered a barber. Seeing no couch in the shop, Doctor-Senator Copeland told the barbers to lay Senator Jones on the floor. He despatched the bootblack for whiskey and had a barber telephone for Rear Admiral Grayson.* The bootblack quickly returned with several containers of whiskey and other restoratives. Senator Jones revived. Presently the Doctor-Admiral arrived, and Senator Jones was removed to the Emergency hospital. His condition was pronounced serious. For several years...
Once there was a pudgy-faced newsboy on Chicago's West Side. His name was William Lorimer. His tactics were questionable but he moved fast-bootblack, sign painter, street car conductor, "boss" of Chi- cago Republicanism, banker, U. S. Senator. The higher he rose, the fatter he grew and the more crooked became his methods. In 1912 the Senate ejected him for having obtained his seat by bribery. In 1914 his La Salle Street Trust and Savings Bank crashed; seven years later he was put in jail because the Government found his banking schemes fraudulent...