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Since four-fifths of Cook County, Ill. consists of the city of Chicago, which has a school superintendent of its own, life in the County Superintendent's office has its dull moments. For six years those moments have been enlivened by paunchy, grey-haired Otto Aken and dapper young Noble Puffer. Up to 1933 both were assistant superintendents. When the Superintendent died a Democratic school board appointed Mr. Aken to fill out the unexpired term. But before the next election wily Noble Puffer elbowed his superior out of Democratic graces, won the nomination. Superintendent Aken accused him of falsifying...
...dapper little Dane who for one year reigned as King of the Greeks is George II, a great-nephew of Britain's late Queen Alexandra and a frequent house guest of her Son George V. Last week George II was hopefully trying in London to make head or tail of the latest Greek election. So were most Greeks...
...Dapper, debonair, lavishly educated abroad, Clarence Hungerford Mackay continued to spin the web his father had begun until it was a $120,000,000 world-wide system. Then, after presiding over Western Union's only competitor for a quarter century, he sold out in 1928 to International Telephone & Telegraph which, under the direction of the Brothers Behn, was gobbling up communication companies in all the world's corners. As I. T. & T. has since learned, the Postal System was no bargain...
...plum-The Foreign Secretaryship-had to go to the man who has put through Parliament this year a measure which has necessitated Parliamentary reports and documents amounting to 20 times the length of Holy Bible: the India Bill of tall, dapper, aquiline, baldish Sir Samuel Hoare. So dubious are the merits of this measure that it has been dubbed "the Hoarefrost," but as Secretary of State for India since 1931 Sam Hoare put it through, and no other British statesman has recently done anything so big. Why Sir Sam should not now be made Prime Minister, on the theory that...
...that corridor marched huffy Hugh S. Johnson who for a twelvemonth was NRA personified; sickish Donald Richberg and sheepish Solicitor General Reed whose defense of NRA before the Supreme Court had proved so footling; William Green and John L. Lewis to whom NRA was a professional gift from heaven; dapper Averell Harriman who manned NRA after its first champions had departed; gawky Attorney General Cummings who had tried to enforce NRA; Felix Frankfurter whose advice to stall off as long as possible a clear-cut court test of NRA's constitutionality had proved so ingloriously wrong...