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Herbert Stanley Morrison, who set an example for the Empire, is a onetime errand boy and telephone operator who grew up to be Mayor of suburban Hackney in 1920. Serving two terms in the House of Commons, he was Laborite Minister of Transport (1929-31). Since the fall of the Labor Cabinet he has concentrated on London city politics. Nowadays, despite his beliefs, he appears as correctly clad as any stockbroker, proudly carrying the Londoner's traditional furled umbrella. It was not always so. In 1929, three months after he became His Majesty's Minister of Transport...
SACRIFICE-Norah C. James-Covici, Friede ($2.50). Novel of suburban realism by the British author of Sleeveless Errand, Jealousy...
...discovered that although he did not know how to pronounce their names customers would pay 10? to hear him try. Then, after a brief career delivering eggs, he went to high school. His teachers were not impressed with his Latin. So Michael Jeremiah Devlet went to work as an errand boy in a bond house. At 16 he was earning $14 a week; at 17, only $5. But he had become a runner. Four years later, when he was a successful bond trader, the biggest and best known government bond house in Wall Street, C. F. Childs & Co., hired...
...doffing and errand running characterized the life of the Harvard Freshman during the eighteenth century, if we are to believe the records of customs of Harvard College written into a copy book by an instructor in 1781 and even then called "ancient...
...been called "Gadfly Cummins" and his journal the "Chronic Hell." Dr. Cummins detests Anglo-Catholicism, helped found the Protestant Episcopal Church League to combat it. When his name was suggested as suffragan to New York's high-church Bishop Manning, Dr. Cummins announced he would be "errand boy" to no bishop (TIME, May 19, 1930). "Gadfly" Cummins has long sought to introduce "referendum and recall" in the Episcopal Church, currently aiming his proposal against Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry. In the early days of The Chronicle, Editor Cummins fought soberly and solemnly. He now fights with satire...