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...Nathan Hirschberg, a Manhattan attorney, testified in his wife's suit for separation that he used to leave tender notes on her pillow before leaving for work. Sample: "Cherub: Rise and shine. 'Tis a lovely day for a lovely cherub." If he failed to leave a note, said Hirschberg, his wife would cut loose later with "swear words and oaths that would make a seasoned muleskinner envious." Said Cherub: "I remember calling him, nothing worse than a penny-pinching jerk...
Last week President Adolph Hirschberg of Philadelphia's Central Labor Union rose to plead: "Don't take the attitude that officers of the A. F. of L. are enemies of the laboring man. Much damage has been caused . . . [by] this rift in the ranks." Snapped Yale Professor Jerome Davis: "The A. F. of L. should never have suspended [Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization] without putting the question to the whole membership. . . ." (TIME, Aug. 17). Promptly passed by a unanimous vote was a resolution condemning the A. F. of L.'s treatment of Miner Lewis, endorsing...
...believed that there were the remains of two prehistoric animals in the swamp, because one tusk of the mastodon was broken off and apparently buried in its own side, as if a struggle had taken place. Dr. Mather definitely destroyed this notion in the following letter to Mr. Hirschberg...
...Hirschberg, the first mastodon impresario on record, claims that he has refused an offer of $75,000 for his prize. In as much as Dr. Mather stated yesterday that the approximate museum value of even so large and well preserved mastodon as Mr. Hirschberg's is not over $15,000, it is believed that the Newark business man has not acted rationally in refusing so large a sum. He has confided to several friends that he will accept $200,000 for the mastodon...
...possibility that Mr. Hirschberg will make a vaudeville tour with his specimen is generally discounted since the skull alone weighs 450 pounds, the hip bones are five feet, eight and a half inches long, and a single molar tooth is as large as a foot hassock of the Victorian...