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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mark Twain had once described a legendary Mississippi River roustabout, Mike Fink, as "half man, half alligator," the Vagabond remembered. That certainly caught his character right,--a leathery-hides roughneck, quick with a knife, ready to let you have it with hands, feet, fingernails, anti teeth if he didn't like the way you shook your dice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 5/3/1941 | See Source »

...cleaned things up in Washington when he was elected. In Tennessee a fellow who didn't own a big spread of buckshot land and had to scratch along in the pines some-where didn't see things just the same way as a Virginia Whig. So Mike Fink was a Democrat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 5/3/1941 | See Source »

...whom are second year students, are Cecil B. Annett, Jr., Moorestown, N. J.; Milo V. Buchanan, Washington, D. C.; William L. Claff, Malden; William J. Deyo, Jr., Tillson, N. Y.; Joel Esquith, New York, N. Y.; Morton K. Fink, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Robert Gueiroard, Paris, France; Ralph F. Lowis, St. Louis, Mo.; William Little, Cambridge; Milton J. Margolis, Dayton, O.; Richard F. Neuschel, Hamburg, N. Y.; Summer A. Pendleton, Somerville; Richard H. Rush, Washington, D. C.; Fred N. Twining, Orinda, Calif.; Morton L. Weiss, West Chester, Pa.; and John W. Welcker, Springfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AWARDS GIVEN TO BUSINESS STUDENTS | 3/28/1941 | See Source »

...JACOB FINK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 17, 1941 | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

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