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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chairman of the metals subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee is Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, onetime attorney for U. S. Steel Corp. Well he knew what the steelman wanted. Also on the job was Pennsylvania's Joseph R Grundy, arch-lobbyist for manufacturers The sequence of recent events: 1) The Finance Committee by a vote of 7-to-4 first rearranged the manganese ore tariff on metal content, in effect increasing the duty above the 1 cent per Ib. level. 2) From Moscow came the announcement that U. S. Steel Corp. had signed a five-year contract...
...were puzzled by the artistic conceptions of Labor placed before them. Cried President William Green: "I'm wearied of always seeing Labor pictured bearing a burden. Labor is free." Remarked another troubled councilman: "Some of these would be all right if the sculptor could be chained to the job to tell people what it's all about. But what could be done when he died...
...York. Herman Rittner (alias John De Leon, John Bennett, John Meyers, Joseph Gunay, Robert Schmidt, Edward Paulsen, Nick Swansen), 45, 5 ft. 7 in., 133 lb., blue eyes, foreign accent, for grand larceny. A one-job-a-year man he hires out through an agency as a window-washer steals as much as $50,000 worth of jewelry at a scoop. Crime is his only vocation. Police want him for a $30,000 "window-washing" robbery last year...
Before he was 20, Asa Yoelson ran away from Washington, D. C, where he had learned to sing in the synagogue with his father, Cantor Yoelson. He got a job barking for a side-show with a country circus, later went into vaudeville and started blacking his face because he noticed that crowds always laughed at a black man. He worked with Dockstader's minstrels, then for the Shuberts. He was the first minstrel to get down on his knees when, in the chorus of a song, he came to the word "Mammy." Now a multimillionaire, third* richest actor...
...round-faced, amiable, onetime New York Sun reporter, for the last three years an associate editor of Collier's. About The Mentor, what its plans are, he will talk with hopeful enthusiasm. About new Editor Leamy he is reticent. "I'm still an untried man at this job," he explains. "But The Mentor? Well, you know, we thought it best to go through with a big change all at once to keep it up with the changing times. . . . You might call the new Mentor a nonfiction, up-to-date magazine for people who want to learn about various...