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Interviewed by newshawks in his office at the Winterhalter School, Janitor Denhardt calmly displayed his two caps (one with a special officer's badge for directing traffic), a tin lunch bucket, a neat list of his day's duties beginning "Faucets to be repaired," a pile of English and German books. No ordinary janitor, Adam Denhardt was a German teacher for 33 years until he was pensioned off in 1924. When he and his wife Agate went to the U. S., leaving their three daughters behind, the only job he could get was one as "house father...
...lung operation; in Rochester, Minn. At the 1912 Democratic National Convention he was runner-up to the late Thomas R. Marshall for the Vice Presidential nomination. In 1922 he entered partnership with Louis M. Kardos Jr. in a Wall Street brokerage firm which soon failed, was exposed as a "bucket shop." Admitting that he had received $500 a week for the use of his name as "window dressing," "Honest John" Burke surrendered all he had, returned to Fargo penniless...
...painters are moving in. After a successful swing around the Winthrop House circuit during the midyear examination period, the bucket and brush division of the Maintenance Department is now taking up its position in McKinlock Hall, Leverett...
Judged by numbers, the U. S. Congress at Washington is a drop in the bucket compared to the Congress that assembled last week in New York. The American Bowling Congress is not only the biggest Congress in the U. S. but also the biggest sport event in the world. In the A. B. C. tournament, 22,000 bowlers, representing the cream of the country's crop of 9,000,000, bowl for eight weeks to determine five-man, two-man and individual U. S. bowling championships. The Congress costs $100,000. Entry fees total $218,000 ($5 apiece from...
After a pious preliminary denial that their picture has any factual basis, the producers of "Stolen Holiday" then proceed to given an amazingly accurate play by play account of the now famous Stavisky "bucket shop" scandal, which nearly caused a French revolution several years ago. Only one major departure from historical truth can be noted--instead of ending up in the log show of New York's French Casino, as did Stavisky's wife Sacha, Kay Francis marries an English diplomat, thus suppling the customary happy ending...