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...wanted to be Minister in some country where they speak the English language. I've been mining copper for 35 years now, and most of the mines out there were dug by the Irish. They sometimes call Butte Little Ireland. One of my friends, the late Marcus Daly, who founded the Anaconda Copper Mining Co., was an Irishman. I am not trained in diplomacy or anything like that but I guess I can handle...
Though the names of prisoners taking N. Y. U.'s course were kept secret. Sing Sing inmates who could have told the professors something about the practical side of their subjects included Frank H. Warder, onetime New York State Superintendent of Banks; Bernard K. Marcus and Saul Singer, onetime president and executive vice president respectively of New York's Bank of United States...
...Last year when he gave up his retail store on Madison Avenue and confined himself to manufacturing, Saks Fifth Avenue signed a contract for an exclusive agency in Manhattan. Outside Manhattan, Delman shoes are sold in 30 cities through such agencies as Sommer & Kaufmann of San Francisco, Neiman-Marcus Co. of Dallas, C. Crawford Hollidge of Boston...
Early one morning last week several carloads of men, led by New York City's thin, purse-lipped new Commissioner of Correction Austin Harbutt MacCormick and his stocky aid David Marcus, descended the elevator from the Queensboro Bridge, made Welfare Island a surprise visit. By sundown Commissioner MacCormick had lifted the lid off Welfare Island and given city. State and nation a terrifying glimpse into the nether depths of prison life. "The worst prison in the world," pronounced Commissioner MacCormick, whom new Fusion Mayor LaGuardia had enlisted from the Federal Bureau of Prisons to clean up penal scandals left...
Italian leader was a big swarthy gunman named Joie Rao, kept sleek and well-pressed by his underlings. Rao, onetime boxer, was shaving when Deputy Commissioner Marcus ordered him to get along with the rest of his henchmen to solitary cells. Prisoner Rao insolently remarked that he would when he finished his toilet. Deputy Marcus, a boxer in his time at West Point, made short shrift of that kind of talk...