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...oath Mr. McKee automatically succeeded to the $40,000 job of Mayor from his $25.000 position as President of the Board of Aldermen. The first day he arrived at City Hall by subway, worked eight hours in his shirtsleeves, took 35 minutes off for lunch alone at a soda-fountain restaurant. His job was not new to him; he had filled it often and well during the protracted junkets of fun-loving "Jimmy" Walker. A thrifty Scot, he promised to economize, to cut the $631,000,000 city budget to the bone. With the change of mayors, municipal bonds rose...
...receivership was requested by Austin, Nichols & Co. to whom Acker, Merrall & Condit sold their wholesale grocery business in 1923. Since then the firm has operated five retail stores in Manhattan, two in New Jersey, all equipped with restaurant and fountain service. Current assets of the firm dropped from $366,000 at the end of July 1930 to $68,000 last July. President Thomas B. Fisher said a reorganization would be attempted...
Inventor Macneil was not the only one playing last week with infra-red rays. At Schenectady, General Electric Co. installed in its main office an infra-red drinking fountain. When a drinker lowers his head over the fountain he intercepts the rays and a stream of water is turned on. Drinkers were at first too awed to drink...
...late autumn Manhattanites will be able to enter the world's biggest theatre, five stories high, spired by 26 stories of Radio-Keith-Orpheum enterprises. In the domed grand foyer they will be faced by Muralist Ezra Winter's 60-ft. canvas showing the Fountain of Youth planted by God on a mountaintop, ringed by chasms. This canvas will follow the sweep of a huge marble and bronze stairway. In the auditorium a gigantic sunburst will explode above the proscenium arch. Structural glass will be pocked with mosaics of cork, murals of linoleum. The wall coverings will...
...officer in the Royal Navy,.served in the Atlantic and China fleets. After the War he studied at Oxford, was graduated with honors in modern history in 1921. Since 1926 he has been the London Times's dramatic critic. Married to Authoress Hilda Vaughan he dedicates The Fountain to her. Other books: My Name is Legion, Portrait in a Mirror...