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Reason for Josephine Roche's "absence from the Treasury": J. Paul Peabody, one-time clerk, whom she raised to the presidency of Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., died last summer and she had to go back to business...
...years as Special Prosecutor, Mr. Dewey has not unearthed any more conclusive proof of the unregenerate nature of Tammany Hall than in his speech last Sunday in which he showed that Albert Marinelli, Tammany leader in the 2nd Assembly District and New York County Clerk, was a personal friend of "Lucky" Luciano and actually went on a party with him in Chicago while Luciano was hiding from Dewey's investigation. To this accusation, Mr. Marinelli, a shadowy figure with a large estate on Long Island, has no comment to make, and it is indeed hard to see how there...
Exactly a year and a day after the gang's escape in Greenfield, James Dalhover, its "trigger man," walked into Dakin's store for the second time, to pick up his merchandise. Said he: "Where's the stuff I ordered?" The clerk who stepped forward was not Hurd but Walter Walsh, a crack G-man and specialist in trick shots. Walsh's job was to signal 13 more G-men, 30 Bangor patrolmen and a squad of Indiana and Maine State troopers posted outside the store as soon as a member of the Brady gang came...
...only vitamins which the clerk in the grocery and the cook in the kitchen know about are A for clear vision, B for sound nerves, C for healthy muscles and D for sturdy bones. Nutritionists, however, know that there are at least six kinds of vitamin B, eight D's, three H's and a K. Each of these should be assigned a separate letter, according to the nomenclature suggested by Casimir Funk, a Polish biochemist who in 1911 invented the word vitamin to describe these food elements essential to good health. But there are not enough letters...
...drizzling rain Detroit went to the polls last week to roll up the heaviest primary vote in the city's history. The top two candidates, who will stand for election in November were conservative City Clerk Reading (137,000) and C. I. O.'s O'Brien (99,000). A. F. of L.'s Smith polled only 68,000 but Detroit did not overlook the fact that the two Labor candidates together pulled more votes than City Clerk Reading...