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...oldest but least publicized advisers. Clarence Shearn intended to be a newspaperman, but one of the first stories he wrote as a New York Times reporter resulted in a libel suit. Assigned to help frame the defense, Reporter Shearn soon took the law for a livelihood. In the early 90s he became Mr. Hearst's attorney and legal crusader against coal and food combines, has since drawn up most of Mr. and Mrs. Hearst's most intimate documents. In New York Mr. Shearn was defeated as a Democratic Hearst candidate for district attorney and later Governor, but finally...
...thousand and one weird English dialects now imparted to deaf-mutes in school could, by some magic, be transformed into as many vocational skills. Certainly it is more socially desirable for deaf people to write their way through the world, than for them to be without means of livelihood...
...question of whether a few lawless individuals ignoring and condemning the Wagner Act and in defiance of all law and order, and in ruthless disregard of the rights of others, should be permitted, by assuming the name of a union, to deprive all others of their means of livelihood and compel them to contribute of their earnings to self-styled leaders. A few 'sit-downers' are keeping 2,500 persons, who were entirely satisfied with their positions, from working and from earning an honest living for themselves and their families. If an employer had denied to Labor...
...sand sculptors learned to mix one part of cement with three or four parts of beach, and their creations will withstand two or three years of hail or high water. But last week another force threatened to wipe out permanently much of the itinerant artists' handiwork and a livelihood which, although sand sculpturing has remained the piece de resistance and principal attraction, has lately come from the more lucrative practice of sketching board-walkers who pause to gawp at the modeling. Last week's threat came from the City Hall where Mayor Charles D. White, mindful that...
...ordinary heeler wants in return for his services is a small official job and accompanying "perquisites." If his party stays out of power too long, he will grow discouraged, seek other livelihood. That is what has been happening to the Republican machine since 1932. But the heeler may be equally bereft if his party wins too often and too easily. For then the party generals and captains and lieutenants come to believe that they themselves achieved the victories, forget the rear-rank privates who did the actual fighting...