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...Nickel...
...Chicago, one Edward Blair was arrested for using a slug to make a nickel telephone call. Police found $781 in his pocket...
...service, that he did not make a nickel out of the deal. His intercession, he tried to make Counsel Seabury believe, was only in the interest of international goodwill. Lawyer Hickin refused to waive immunity, would not tell to what Tammany man he passed on $45.000 shortly after N. G. L. paid his fee. Provoked at Investigator Seabury's failure to "pin anything on the higher-ups" in Tammany, the New York Daily News, saucy tabloid, declared: "Stop spraying everybody with skunk juice and bag us a lion...
...valid in other respects. The magnificently, minutely true characterization which Helen Hayes gives to Leora is one of the events of the year. Good shots: rats, outlined in fire, leaving a burning brush village; Leora's reply to Arrowsmith's proffer of marriage: "Have you got a nickel? I want soft music...
...triple play among major railroads spelled the end of Mr. Crowley's leadership of Central, although he still remained a director. Ill health was given as the cause but Wall Street whispered that "Pat" Crowley had lost his fight with Central's bankers over Pennsylvania Railroad's desire for Nickel Plate trackage rights along Lake Erie (TIME, Oct. 12). Son of two Irish immigrants, with no schooling after the grammar grades, President Crowley followed the storybook route to success. His first job was in 1878 as messenger boy for the Erie. Telegrapher, station agent, train-despatcher all before...