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...Catholic-Democratic politics. Nobody is fooled by the independent location of the Board of Education's dingy old headquarters on Park Avenue at 59th Street some three miles north of City Hall. Brought to New York at the age of four, Harold George Campbell climbed the public school ladder rung by rung: pupil, grade-school teacher, high-school teacher, principal, associate superintendent. He has long been a close personal friend and ally of the Board of Education's Democratic President George Joseph Ryan. Democratic Superintendent O'Shea has often been pleased to call him "my right...
...three years ago people stopped in front of a small black canvas entitled "Dog Barking at the Moon." On the right, in strange iridescent colors, was something that might be a dog. Above it was another shape that might be a moon. On the left there was definitely a ladder, shooting up into infinity. As a work of art it only annoyed most people. Yet last summer that same canvas, now the proud possession of an eminent Union Club member, Mr. Albert Eugene Gallatin, was listed by Chicago critics along with Rembrandts, El Grecos and Manets...
Jackson got a ladder and climbed up to the Duke's window, calling "Where is Your Grace?" There was no answer, much smoke and belching flame. Hours later a policeman found burned to a crisp in "The Heronry's" pantry all that was left of Prince Louis. Said Mr. McCormick to newsmen: "I think the Duke, blinded by smoke, missed his way to the stairs, blundered into a corner room and was overcome. When the floor was burned through the body must have fallen into the pantry below...
...Graaff staff member clambered up a ladder into the ball which was to serve as the positive terminal. Into the negative ball climbed another, followed by a spunky newshawk. Two more staff men went to shielded control boards at the foot of each column. Builder Van de Graaff barked instructions...
...remain in the grab bag of our party soothsayers? Why should the honest ambition of those men in our civil service who are able, but are declassed in the heinous hierarchy of our parties, be stified by the knowledge that the tempting rungs have been filched from the ladder, and are distributed by the high mok-a-mok to his faithful chieftains? Why in short, do we prattle so happily of civil service reform as a fit accompli because men who sort letters and deliver mail are chosen by examination, when those who direct their activity are selected, simply...