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...young drugstore clerk strolled into a vaudeville theater on Manhattan's Bowery to while away the time. As far as the direction of his own life was concerned, he had picked a good day. In addition to the song & dance acts, there was an added attraction-motion pictures of ocean waves. It was Joseph M. Schenck's first movie, and he could hardly believe his eyes. Said Joe: "Somebody will make a million dollars...
World War I Veteran Brand, a onetime shipping clerk who lost his job in the '30s, has been a hospital attendant since 1935. In 1947, after observing for a week at an Illinois state hospital, where the law forbids restraint, he got permission to try the method. In his own ward at the Milwaukee County Asylum, 32 patients had been tied up. He took the restraints off every one. Says he: "The freed patients were like horses that were tied up for years in the barn. Let them go and they run and kick. So I let them. They...
...cutthroat textile business, Manhattan-born Jake Schwab fought his way up from scratch. He left high school at 16 to work at odd jobs. At 20, he got a $15-a-week stock clerk's job with Cohn-Hall-*Marx, a big textile converter. Young Jake had a knack for figures, studied nights to improve it. By 1928 he had risen to treasurer. In that year, Bankers Kidder, Peabody & Co. raised about $20 million to make Cohn-Hall-Marx the base of a textile pyramid integrating many different businesses in the cotton-rayon industry. The new giant was United...
Politicians, hangers-on and reporters crowded into the smoke-filled city clerk's office in Jersey City. They were all assembled for a little democratic ritual. Twenty-five cops, loyal subjects of Boss Frank Hague, hovered around the old grey City Hall. Inside, Deputy City Clerk Ben Rosengard grasped the octagonal walnut box, spun it several times, then carefully pulled out a card. His announcement was just what the boys had expected: the magic box gave Boss Hague's foolproof Democratic machine the top place on the city-election ballot, as it had every time but once...
...Fraud!" cried Charles Witkowski, a candidate for city commissioner on one of the six opposition tickets. A 210-lb. former tackle at Villanova, Witkowski lunged for the box, grabbed it. "I drew it fairly," shouted Clerk Rosengard. "I swear on my family." Other candidates dived in, fought to get a hand on the box to see what made it tick...