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Featherbedding. In Trenton, N.J., the appellate division of the state Superior Court ruled that Nightwatchman Felix Remisiewski may be eligible (subject to a lower-court check) for overtime pay, even while asleep...
...read treatises on precious stones, used jewelers' tools to break up or remake stolen jewelry. To avoid the underworld markdown on hot goods, he printed up cards which bore his name and the legend "Felix P. Jacobson Co., 5 South Wabash, Chicago, Ill."-an active firm whose name he had simply appropriated. He posed as a legitimate salesman and always demanded list prices for stones...
...street, sits a 66-room red brick Georgian mansion, one of the largest and most lavish houses in New York City. Across the street, the late Banker Otto Kahn's Florentine stone palace is now the Sacred Heart Convent for girls; a block up Fifth Avenue stands Banker Felix Warburg's six-story home: it is now the Jewish Museum. Farther down Fifth Avenue, workmen this week started tearing down Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan's ornate 30-room mansion...
Last week the man who would carry much of the "primary responsibility" was sworn in. Vandenberg was there, and so was Acheson's omnipresent old Harvard professor and busybody friend, Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter of the U.S. Supreme Court, with whom he walks to work each day (see cut). Acheson's text for the day, taken from the First Book of Kings: "Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth...
...Acheson, was Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut, his mother was a daughter of the wealthy Gooderham whiskey distilling family in Canada. Young Dean went to Groton, on to Yale for his A.B., then to Harvard for his law degree. He got into government as a protege of Harvard's Felix Frankfurter and a secretary to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis...