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...Born in Bohemia 35 years ago, Marion Anthony Zioncheck was brought to Seattle as a child, grew up to be a fish peddler. He went to the University of Washington Law School, got himself elected president of the student body, behaved so obstreperously that fellow students clipped his pate, dumped him in Lake Washington. Marion Zioncheck began his legal career by being fined $25 for contempt of court after calling a witness a "scab." Later he successfully defended his mother on kidnapping charges. In 1932 Lawyer Zioncheck persuaded the Democratic voters of Washington's First Congressional District to send...
...Austrians, proudly celebrating the same anniversary in Vienna last week, this was a cruel cut. Eugene of Savoy, neither German nor Austrian, was born in France and raised in Louis XIV's court. Louis despised Eugene's big-nostriled face, crooked little frame, cold, dogged stare.' refused him a French commission. Eugene at 20 helped the Austrians turn back one of the last Turkish offensives in Europe and remained to become, at 34, Austrian Imperial Field Marshal. Allied with Britain's Marlborough and with the Germans, Eugene thoroughly spanked the armies of his onetime sovereign...
Connecticut-born and bred, Noah Webster was the son of a sturdy farmer, a veteran of the French & Indian Wars, who mortgaged his farm in order to send his promising son to college at Yale. The Revolution did not interrupt Noah's education: what soldiering he did was a holiday task. One summer he marched with his father and two brothers to Ticonderoga to help repel Burgoyne's invasion, was too late to see any fighting. After his graduation his father gave him an eight-dollar Continental bill (worth about two in silver) and sent...
This week not only those Price bondholders who deposited their securities with Banker McGregor but even those who held off will be able to turn in paper for cash on the line. Banker McGregor lives in fancy Chestnut Hill outside Boston, is fiftyish, greying, handsome. New Hampshire-born of his family's eighth generation in this country, he went early to work for Harris, Forbes & Co., became its president in 1930. Now out of investment banking, he takes up his time with golf, directorships, an occasional reorganization, lays the blame for his partial leisure upon...
...surging and retreating of the three-part rhythm, and the rollicking gaiety that eddies in its midst, make one think that he was born anywhere from eighty to twenty years too late. There may have been war in 1839 between Joseph Lanner and Johann Strauss, the waltz-king and the brilliant rebel, but that war had more melody and harmony than a hundred years of our stodgy peace. At any rate, open dissension is boiling away at the very moment when Sir Philip, Superintendent of the Court of Balls, emissary of Queen Victoria, arrives in Vienna to choose the best...