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...banking when Atlantic City began booming as a resort, became a local tycoon. Seniority of service advanced him to the No. 3 majority place on the House Ways & Means Committee. There his dexterous management of politics and finance won him a reputation as the committee's "brain." A mixer and a fixer, sporty in attire, facially ferocious but personally pleasant, grey-bristly-haired Representative Bacharach is one of Speaker Longworth's closest friends and, as such, a power in House affairs...
...hardly one shower in which a majority of the needle-points are in working condition. As a result the water comes through the few points that are clear with such force that it produces great discomfort and difficulty in getting a proper shower. Another point is that the mixer when turned so as to produce cold water, reduces the water pressure to a minimum...
Dynamic, warm, lavish, Byoir is an instinctive mixer. Mornings he may be found in the patio of the Hotel Sevilla-Biltmore, habitually hatless, armed with a malacca stick, buttonholing or being buttonholed by this statesman, that sportsman. Afternoons find him on the sands of La Playa beach; midnight, in the two-story structure at Industria 77, erstwhile Casa Publica, now the plant of the Post and Telegram...
...Portland, Idaho got in Oregon's cement mixer and came out smooth and moist. Idaho 7, Oregon...
...with the institutions that set them adrift in the world. The American genius for organization has been nowhere more potent that in its regimentation of college alumni, with the result that the alumni have come to dictate the ideals of the college. These ideals are naturally those of the "mixer," since in nine cases out of ten it is the good "mixer" that succeeds in business...