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...Equal also are the color, size and shape of their eyes. Coincidal too were the accidents of Dr. Ben Witt Key, ophthalmologist, knowing both their cases. A sure eye surgeon, and a daring, Dr. Key thought of lifting the thickened cornea from Nordic Ferguson's bad eye and grafting on the peeled ball the good cornea of Jewish Greenblatt's bad eye. The Jew amiably agreed to the graft, the Nordic hopefully received it. And hopefully, with eyes bandaged, they waited for results...
Famed Lawyer Max D. Steuer for the defense, employed his familiar theatricalities to emphasize the purely inferential nature of the testimony. The late Mr. Phillips, he said, was the true rogue. He had made more than $3,000,000 in graft. "I hope that to God he has made a satisfactory reckoning." screamed Lawyer Steuer. The corpulent Mr. Connolly was pictured as the victim of persecution. But shades of the prison house still gathered about the ex-Borough President...
...plan is to elevate a motor concourse above the railroad right-of-way now labelled Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues and commonly, because of accidents, called "Death Avenue." Ramps to the superstructure will occur at 22nd, 44th and 57th Streets. The whole will cost some $13,500,000 (graft excluded). One boom in Manhattan riverside real estate has already occurred recently, on the Harlem River bank around 80th Street, under the leadership of Vincent Astor. The new concourse was expected to carry the boom from east side to west side, all around the town...
...Commonwealth of Pennsylvania last fortnight went an insult to Philadelphia. From Erie, at the farthermost corner of the state, came the announcement that the United Lutheran Church of America would not convene in Philadelphia at the next biennial assemblage (1930). The reason for the snubbing of Philadelphia was the "graft scandals" of recent development. Milwaukee, free of graft scandals, was chosen instead...
...last two days the American press has been haling the remarkable achievement o the German dirigible, Graft Zeppelin. Enthusiastic praise of the triumph of Captain Eckener and his associates has been almost universal. The Transcript, however, has managed to find something more than great skill and great courage in the venture of the German airmen: "As a matter of fact, the experience with the ship is more valuable from a military point of view than it is from a commercial. May it not be that this aspect of the matter had a place in the minds of her builders...