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...proved that the Borah letters were forgeries, that bald M. Orloff himself had forged them. Imperial Orloff, whose secret traffickings enabled him to own two houses in Berlin and a country place on the Elbe, was hastily jailed to await trial; jailed with him was Michael Pavlovsky, his "errand boy." Rumors were insistent that not only the Borah letters but the more important Zinoviev letter were the work of Orloff...
James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, one-time errand boy and engine cleaner, last week became the Right Honorable James Henry Thomas, Lord Privy Seal of Great Britain. By his new title the onetime errand boy legally takes precedence over all the dukes of Britain...
...several years later was still selling Knox hats, his salary now having risen to $12 weekly. Ambitious, he asked for $15. But Hatter Knox refused the raise. Angry, Robert left, started his own hat business. Thus began the famed Dunlap hat company, founded by Robert Dunlap, onetime Knox errand...
...inaugurated continuous (10 a. m.-11 p. m.) performances. Before entering the vaudeville business, Mr. Proctor ran an unsuccessful Ten-Twenty-Thirty melodrama chain, and before that toured Europe as a circus acrobat. He was born in Dexter, Me., and began his career in the extremely unhistrionic capacity of errand boy at Boston's R. H. White...
When, in 1815, Napoleon I was a prisoner on the British warship Bellerophon, thousands of sturdy Britons flocked to Plymouth Harbor in the hope that the Ogre might show himself on deck. When, last week, two Napoleons of U. S. finance reached London on a diplomatic, but controversial errand, they were regarded with less hostility but with almost as much curiosity. "American Millionaires in Kingsway," headlined the London Standard, "Sir Hugo Meets the United States Giants," cried the London Evening News. Much has Britain lately worried concerning the U. S. Money; now Yankee Doodle had certainly come to town...