Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your article pictured Mr. Hoan as the highly educated savior of our city; whereas Mr. Shinners is a rough-and-tumble uneducated person who has nothing to recommend him except his hulk. Apparently some seventy or eighty thousand residents of Milwaukee think otherwise It must be a great source of satisfaction to you and to Mayor Hoan that after 20 years of service he was only able to be elected by the skin of his teeth...
...with which the House charged him last week was that, as party to a champertous proceeding, he had "corruptly and unlawfully" received $4,500 from his onetime law partner, Albert L. Rankin. Champerty, it was explained for the benefit of nonlawyer Senators, is a proceeding whereby a person having no legitimate interest in a law suit abets it with money or services in the hope of profit. Judge Ritter. the House managers asserted, had connived with his onetime partner and others to throw Whitehall, a Palm Beach hotel, into receivership, had thereupon granted Lawyer Rankin an exorbitant...
...person who knows that he is going to locate permanently in a strange and large city would do well to obtain letters of introduction from a physician of the community from which he is about to move. . . . Choose, then, a man who is known as a general practitioner or an internal medical man, rather than a surgeon or a specialist for your personal medical adviser...
...description of the holy man's entourage: "He gets up very early. . . . He takes a very hot bath, and his hair is attended to with the greatest care. . . . He then goes from room to room, stops for a while in front of every bed, looks at the sleeping person, and, no doubt, directs in his own way the life of the disciple for the rest of the day. . . . He never reads books, but he knows everything. . . . Baba does not read a paper. He just goes over the headlines...
Senator McKellar of the Senate Appropriations Committee protested yesterday that J. Edgar Hoover's "G" men were running wild with Government money, and he advocated a $225,000 slash in the Department of Justice allotment for the coming year. Mr. Hoover appeared in person to defend these charges, and insisted that any cut in governmental appropriation would encourage a new crime wave, as well as seriously hamper the Department's work...