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...position of Dean Plimpton and his associates is essentially that of broker or middleman. He cannot and would not, if he could, pull jobs out of his pockets like a beneficent Santa Claus. But his organization can and does perform all in its power "to help a man help himself...
MODERN AMERICAN POETRY; MODERN BRITISH POETRY - Louis Untermeyer - Harcourt, Brace ($3.50 each). Revised editions of two popular anthologies by a literary middleman who is still doing business at the old stand...
...wives and three hundred concubines gave him ample opportunity to speak authoritatively on that subject. His reorganization of the internal administration of his kingdom; his wise utilization of the control of the caravan routes that led from Egypt and Arabia to Phoenicia and Syria; his great commercial undertakings as middleman and carrier; his zeal for monoplies; and all in all with his faith in the Lord laid the foundations of his vast national wealth and showed his people and the world that indeed here, as the scriptures says...
Into the business of arson enter three parties: 1) the owner of a well-insured establishment. 2) the middleman, 3) the firer. An arson-bound store owner can find many a middleman who, for some $2,000, will arrange a fire. But the middle-man can find few skillful firers. Bertha Warshovsky, Chicago's most expert firer, knows most of arson's middlemen. Some ten years ago she began to make money by fabricating and selling to arsonists a gadget consisting of a short candle tightly bound with kitchen matches. Price: $5 to $10. Later when she found...
Last June Chicago police rounded up many a middleman, announced that they had smashed a "million dollar" arson ring. Three weeks ago they decided to tidy up the last stray clue by picking up fat Bertha, whose only connection with the case seemed to be that her son-in-law had been arrested. Much to their surprise, she began to talk. Last week she was still talking, spouting a voluble stream of names, addresses, dates, fees...