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...Kings, Two Queens. Adolf Hitler has no wife and only what money he can collect (German Magnaten have been generous). But Lady Cynthia Blanche Mosley, daughter of the late, great Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, brings to her husband many of the golden millions left by her Jewish grandfather, Levi Zeigler Leiter of Chicago...
...Haven's 258 barber shops are in "what may be properly termed a high state of perfection."?Health Officer John Levi Rice, in a report last fortnight. Dr. Rice has devised a shrewd method of harrying slovenly barbers. He grades their shops as to cleanliness and sanitation, publishes the grades with names. No New Haven barber shop merits grade 100 but: 138 are between 90 and 98; 104 between 80 and 88; only 16 between 70 and 80. When a shop falls below 70, it is closed...
...that she plays for put-aways even when she is making errors, disdaining caution. She had no trouble putting Miss Weisel out. Mrs. Lawrence Harper of California, No. 5 ranking U. S. woman, put out Mary Greef. The other two in the semi-finals were tightlipped, agreeable Baroness Giacomo Levi of Italy and tall, muscular Marjorie Merrill, of Dedham, Mass...
...years older (he is now 33). At election times they are busy baby-kissers. And all the time they are busy spending where it will do the most political good the income from millions left to Lady Mosley by her grandfather, the late Chicago department store tycoon, Levi Zeigler Leiter. Last week Sir Oswald saw and fairly snapped up a chance to seize leadership of the disaffected, "pure Socialist" left wing of the Labor Party...
Career: His father Levi, descendant of Nathaniel Dickinson, Massachusetts settler of 1630, migrated to Iowa after the Civil War, bought land at $1 per acre, sold it for $6, became a well-to-do husbandman. His son did farm chores, attended common school, grew tall and solid. Ambitious, he helped pay his way through Cornell College (Mt. Vernon, Iowa) which graduated him in 1898. He studied law at Iowa State University, hung out his shingle at the age of 26 in the town of Algona. Two years later he married Miss Myrtle Call who bore him a son, a daughter...