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...course there is J. Frank Chase of the Watch and Ward Society who can keep anyone in Boston from reading almost any book he pleases, but even Mr. Chase does not operate with the facility and dispatch of Mayor Curley. Mr. Chase has to consult the book sellers, and employ, presumably, a modicum of tact and diplomacy. The mayor need not even be polite. And while Mr. Chase's is the empire of books. Mr. Curley's is power unlimited in theatres, lecture platforms, public meetings, street parades, and almost anything else one could mention...
...Hornaday has himself been in Government employ. In 1874, he began to serve Henry A. Ward of Rochester, as a naturalist. A couple of years later, he went around the world gathering rare specimens of animal life. When he got back, he founded the Society of American Taxidermists. After eight years of this sort of apprenticeship, he became Chief Taxidermist of the National Museum in Washington. He has hunted for Science in India, the Malay Archipelago and South America. In Montana, he has collected buffaloes for the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. A decade or so ago he became prominent...
...newspapers made much of the incident, and that day the directors of the Liberty Bank, happening to hold a meeting, decided they would like to employ him. So he became an assistant cashier. A year later, he was made cashier, three years later Vice President, and in another year more President?at age 32. The way he increased the bank's business was so marked that it soon had to move to larger quarters. Its lease had two years to run, and so Davison organized the Bankers' Trust Co. to fill the vacant quarters. Today it is the largest trust...
...ensued, continued. Some twelve minutes later a doctor was bending anxiously above the Italian-one Edward Shea of Chicago-while the Hebrew-Charley ("Phil") Rosenberg- remained bantamweight champion of the world. It had been an unusual fight for the reason that Rosenberg, though cannier than his challenger, disdained to employ the artful dodges of science, but traded punches with the wild-eyed, bloody-mouthed, berserk Shea. Many who saw the little men belabor each other thought of another battle in which a champion who could box met a challenger who could hit, said: "The biggest thrill since Dempsey smacked Firpo...
...This is the headline scene. Strut! This is the big-act." Such a climax occurred one day last week in the career of an undersized gentleman who was perceived, at dawn, walking up and down the terrace of his villa at Beverly Hills, Calif. A medical man in his employ issued from the house and crossed the grass to the little fellow, making, as he came, expressive gestures. The other's face relaxed. He beamed, took the doctor's arm, crossed to the house with him at a skipping run. In an hour the world knew that a 6¾-pound...