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...Mayor Ruffu, in addition to his manifold duties in selling insurance to the city and renting disorderly houses . . . using his office as chief magistrate of Atlantic City's law and government to jockey a gambling business into a friend's pocket . . . finds time to supervise [26] bureaus...
...activities of a Man-of-the-Year are bound to be manifold. Being board chairman of General Electric Co. and Radio Corp. might not keep some men very busy, but it keeps Owen D. Young busy because of another quality which made him internationally invaluable at Paris: his sensitiveness to, his prescience of the Future. Never a technician, he is nonetheless obsessed with the idea that some day it may be possible to write a message on a pad at one's desk or bedside and have it instantaneously transmitted to the addressee anywhere on earth. No trained artist...
...possible for a student in chemistry to graduate with a knowledge altogether too small of the interpretation of the past by history and literature and of the present by science as a whole. The correlation of the manifold branches of chemical science, the broad study of the explanation and improvement of the earth and its inhabitants on the basis of physics and chemistry is ample justification for the establishment of a tutorial system in the Department...
Fully aware of his role as Dry Hope- the man President Hoover expects to pull Prohibition out of its manifold troubles- Mr. Youngquist stated that he had never taken a drink himself. He added: "I am a dry politically and personally, but I am not a fanatic on the subject...
Edgar Wallace, whose novels, in England, are so manifold that they are called "Wallaces" (The Three Just Men, 139 others), race horse owner, tipster, playwright (The Sign of the Leopard), arrived in Manhattan, thought that he might gather U. S. criminal material for another "Wallace." Said he: "The speediest work I ever turned out was a book I wrote in a prize contest seven years ago. I started it on a Thursday and finished it on Monday. Its title? I forget. I think it was called the 'Countess Something.' " With him was his wife who told him that...