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...patronage scandal. Before Secretary Morgenthau reported to the President last week he called to Washington Internal Revenue Collector Abbott, who also happens to be Demo-cratic National Committeeman from Michigan. Last August National Chairman Farley tucked Committeeman Abbott away into the comfortable berth of an Internal Revenue collectorship. Good Mixer Abbott was able to pull many a patronage wire through Boss Farley, to the dismay of Michigan Congressmen. They rejoiced, if they did not assist, when the Detroit Free Press began to publish accusations against Collector Abbott: Deputy Collector John J. Tighe, his friend, had used his tax collecting credentials...
When Marinette. Wis. CWA workers were laying the foundations of a new school building, they kept warm by moving their concrete mixer right into the cellar. Last week they had finished the cellar, leaving no exit for their mixer...
Social Characteristics: Henry: shy, reserved, a thorough individualist who shuns the public, father of one son. William: father of three children, a mixer, member of many lodges, organizer of Dearborn's fire department and traffic system, once the town's president-chief of police (dual office), fond of distributing nickels and dimes to children, generally known as "Bill'' or "Uncle Bill," who, content with life, has said he would not change places with Henry. Business: Henry: an unsuccessful inventor at 40, owner and operator of the largest automobile business in the U. S. at 60. William...
...Prohibition is the worst curse that was ever inflicted upon this country," continued this experienced mixer of drinks. "It had a degrading effect upon everyone. Take my case, for example; I was forced during the plague of prohibition to content myself with the mixing of soft drinks and the dishing out of ice cream. But I haven't forgotten how to mix a single drink, not a one. Off hand, I should say that the Martini and Bronx cocktail are about the most popular drinks thus far, but the majority of the drinking public, on the whole, are sampling...
...Mather's ill health retired him in 1929, Associate Director Horace M. Albright, a Republican, succeeded him. Mr. Cammerer, a potent Democrat in Virginia, where he lives with his wife at Lyonhurst, succeeds Mr. Albright. The Mather tradition goes on. Director Cammerer, tall, browned, 49 and a good mixer, has not seen his new domain in years. While supervising east ern parks, he has puttered expertly in his two-acre Lyonhurst garden, chewing an unlit cigar. In the Eastern service he has already erected a monument to himself. It was he who handled the acquisition - through State help, private...