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...tion. He saw Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt shot down in France, had three escapes from death in mid-air himself. In the Battle of St. Mihiel he fell 3,000 ft., got off with ten wounds. He won a Croix de Guerre with palm, bars and citations. "Luckiest Man" Heinrichs, dapper and kinetic, has won to his side at the new Jerusalem Y. M. C. A. men of many faiths. In his tennis club are 31 Orthodox Greeks, 31 Protestants, eleven Roman Catholics, ten Moslems, nine Jews, seven Gregorians, one Baha'i. Last summer...
...message - his fifth in eight days-President Roosevelt last week sent to Congress an emergency farm relief bill of staggering scope and potentiality. In an effort to beat the sun's march north it had been hastily whipped together by young, diffident Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, by alert, dapper Assistant Secretary Tugwell, by wise, bespectacled Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel, new economic adviser to the Secretary and by Frederick Lee, onetime lobbyist for the major farm organizations. At the Capitol, Representative Jones of Texas whisked it into his Committee on Agriculture, summoned his colleagues, slammed the door and settled down...
...antiCommunist; of pneumonia; in London. After the Russian revolution he plotted, fought, howled in vain for his Russo-Asiatic Consolidated Mining Trust's $280,000,000 stake in Russian copper, zinc, lead and coal. In 1923 he recouped by getting a monopoly on Turkish imports and exports. Plump, dapper and grey, he sat behind David Lloyd George at The Hague as his adviser on Russian economics...
...Dapper, amiable President Woodhull took his colossal order as calmly as he does those for paper money for China (where paper money was invented) or for a batch of foreign bonds. In 1914. when the Germans were bearing down on Paris, he was called to print bank notes for France, but the order was canceled when Paris did not fall. He went to American Bank Note 46 years ago at $7 a week as a plate toter. It is his passion for exercise, he thinks, that makes him look 15 years younger than his 64 years...
Quail-hunting on the Gillisonville, S. C. preserves of Charles S. Haight, Manhattan admiralty lawyer, dapper Jean Tillier...