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...scent of corruption growing stronger, the hounds of public conscience began to break loose with an increasing halloo. Church, Press and Business set up a tremendous hue & cry directed against the entire city adminis- tration, but particularly against its dapper little Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker. Public feeling, which had smiled tolerantly at his wisecracks and philandering, which had overlooked his do- nothing policy on the unified transit problem and Unemployment conference, now flared up at what appeared to be culpable laxity. The Society for the Prevention of Crime urged Governor Roosevelt to invoke a little-known section...
Court In Surrogate's Court, meanwhile, the Brothers Pulitzer, a morose trio, sat across the room from dapper, ebullient little Publisher Roy Wilson Howard who clearly manifested his desire to have at the business and be done with it. The Pulitzers had made a contract with Publisher Howard, contingent upon consent of the court, to sell him the papers for $3,000.000 plus another $2,000,000 to be paid out of profits, if sufficient, by 1942. Obviously Publisher Howard would scrap the morning and Sunday Worlds, merge the Evening World with his thumping Evening Telegram and gain...
...feet apart, in a square on the floor of a Manhattan armory, 50 chessboards had been set up. Behind each board sat four men. In the middle of the square, alone against 200, stood a dapper, rather handsome man with keen eyes and a high forehead. He was the great Capa-Jose Raoul Capablanca-onetime chess champion of the world, newly returned to the U. S. after playing for two years abroad. He was competing with more players at once than any chess master had ever tried before;* it looked as if the job was too hard for him. Right...
...than ever. Last week P. & A. Photos Inc. (owned by New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune) decided after nine years trial that the burden was unwarranted, sold out to Scripps-Howard's Acme News Pictures Inc. Head of the combined service will be Acme's small, dapper, wisely-smiling President Fred S. Ferguson. To help President Ferguson cover the world as A. P. does, United Press will supply news tips, gather pictures...
Persons acute to the latest trends of modern art hurried to Manhattan's Brummer Galleries last week to see the first U. S. showing of a precise, dapper gentleman unknown to U. S. shores, whose reputation in Europe is growing like a downhill snowball...