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Title. The title of Finnegans Wake comes from an Irish music-hall ballad, telling how Tim Finnigan of Dublin's Sackville Street, a hod carrier and "an Irish gentleman very odd" who loved his liquor, fell from his ladder one morning and broke his skull. His friends, thinking him dead, assembled for a wake, began to fight, weep, dance...
With Edgar Wallace's background, an other writer might have been deflected from money-making by social conscience or social anger. By-blow of a provincial actress, adopted into a Cockney fishmonger family, he quit school at 12, worked as newsboy, printer's devil, hod carrier, milkman's helper, joined the army at 18, got plenty of hard knocks as he rose from jingo Boer War correspondent to London newspaper editor to rich writer. But said Edgar Wallace in later years: "There cannot be much wrong with a society which made possible the rise of . . . Edgar Wallace...
...Slovakian but not Ruthenian territory to Budapest concluded last week with an agreement to let the matter be arbitrated jointly by Germany and Italy. The German Foreign Minister, onetime Wine & Spirits Salesman Joachim von Ribbentrop, went to Rome to design the basis for this arbitration with Benito Mussolini, onetime hod carrier...
...gets no regular reports from brokerage firms which are not Exchange members ; the Illinois Securities Commission has a staff of only two people. Thus Hoagland & Allum got by for five years until President Joseph V. Moreschi of the International Hod Carriers. Building and Common Laborers' Union of America found himself unable to get back $47.000 of his own money and $64.000 of union money. Just before Hod Carrier Moreschi complained to State's Attorney Thomas J. Courtney last fortnight. Hoagland & Allum Vice President Russell W. Brown was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in his garage. The three...
...rooms and confined their fun mainly to poker. Mr. Green stayed in an $18-per-day suite in the Cosmopolitan Hotel, where he was served by a union waiter, had his bed made by a non-union chambermaid. Across the street in the Brown Palace, Michael Carrozzo of the Hod Carriers, Building & Common Laborers' Union had a $15-per-day suite. Two delegates from the International Union of Operating Engineers shared two bedrooms and a parlor at $30. Some of the labormen who brought their wives & children set up housekeeping apartments rented for the duration...