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Into Detroit's public welfare office marched dusky, buxom Mrs. Lilly Brooks, mother of Negro Pugilist Joe Louis and eight other offspring. Under the superintendent's nose she shoved a check for $269, equal to the relief money which had tided her and her brood over a hard period in 1927-28. Said she: "Joe wanted it paid back...
...Army has 5,000 pigeons, with some 2,000,000 privately-owned carriers in the "reserve." After ten years of experiments at Fort Monmouth, N. J., the Signal Corps has developed a brood of 100 night-flying pigeons-first of their kind. Particularly useful in connection with military planes, they can fly through rain, sleet, fog, snow and around thunderstorms, are vulnerable to nighthawks but little else. They do not fly entirely by blind instinct, but apparently have their own system of avigation. The secret is supposedly in the ear, since the birds are unable to fly with their ears...
Antithesis of the late hated Chain Publisher Frank Munsey, Frank Gannett gives his editors a free hand, signs his name to anything he asks them to publish in conflict with the papers' policies. For supervising his autonomous brood he draws an aggregate salary of $64,370 a year. Politically he is independent. A Hooverite and a Dry in 1932. he became a New Dealer through his interest in managed currency and his friendship with its No. 1 manager, Cornell's famed Professor George Frederick ("Rubber Dollar") Warren. Lately he has reverted to Republicanism. Still bone-dry in sentiment...
Fortune On Manhattan's East Side, a rumor of an uncle who had died six years ago in South Africa leaving a $17,000,000 fortune burst on the tenement home of Abraham Starr, 58, impecunious Polish-Jewish ironworker, his wife Leah, his seven grown children and brood of grandchildren. The facts were that a Montreal lawyer had seen in the hands of a stranger a Polish newspaper listing the will of one Harry Koslack or Kozack who had bequeathed at least $1,000,000, maybe $6,000,000, to his sister who had married a man named Stareselsky...
...husband saw it: at night, in bed, she helped him play with dolls, in the daytime at soldiers. Because she had to do something with her spare time, and because she was ambitious, she read hard, got herself an education. Catherine's only use was as brood mare to the new dynasty, and since her husband would not or could not serve her, the breeders did not much care who did. When she foaled her first-born (afterwards the mad Tsar Paul) it was of little interest to anyone but Catherine that its sire was one Saltykov. The child...