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Bootjack McDaniels, a lanky Negro with powerful shoulders, was asked to confess first. He gibbered that he was innocent. A mobster stepped forward with a plumber's blow torch, lighted it. Another ripped McDaniels' shirt off. Again he refused to confess. Then the blue-white flame of the torch stabbed into his black chest. He screamed with agony. The torch was withdrawn. He reiterated his innocence. Again the torch was turned on him and the smell of burned flesh floated through the woods. Again he screamed, and when it was withdrawn this time he was ready to confess...
...Crosse last month the company held a jamboree in celebration of the opening of the fifth addition to the plant, the 25th anniversary of its entrance into the manufacture of heating equipment and the 50th anniversary of its founding as an obscure plumbing shop by James A. Trane. Plumber Trane's son Reuben went to the University of Wisconsin where he was captain of the crew. Not long after he graduated in 1910, his father decided to incorporate as a manufacturer of heating and plumbing supplies, made Son Reuben president, the job he has held ever since...
...with hands rough from manual work stands in France against Capitalist "big business" against Marxist ''class war," for ardently nationalist French "trust busting" and for a French application of "corporativism"-i. e., a Parliament whose members each represent a guild or unit in the national economy, a plumber being the deputy of plumbers, etc. Thus far jobless middle class youths have been his chief recruits, for the French bourgeoisie are beginning to think that the more or less aristocratic Croix de Fen of Col. null de La Rocque will never get anywhere. Similarly the Reds & Pinks are beginning...
Quickly learning that "nobody wanted to be bothered with the problems of others," Orphan Victor Heiser became a plumber's helper, later a carpenter, finally went to college on the salvage of his father's property, finished a four-year medi-cal course in three years. While still an interne, on a vacation in Washington, he took the examination for entrance into the Marine Hospital Service. With no preparation, he was one of three selected from 30 candidates, lost 20 Ib. during the two-week grilling, got by partially on the strength of his knowledge, partially...
Leni Riefenstahl is the 28-year-old daughter of a Berlin plumber who, like Adolf Hitler, went on to better times. She began her career as a ballet dancer in Munich in 1923. By 1930, she was one of her country's leading cinema stars, noted for her daring in playing dangerous sequences without a double, her fondness for being photographed in mountainous scenery, her nickname of "Ölige Ziege" (Oily Goat), impolitely coined by a German cinema critic. In 1933, U. S. audiences were able to see Fraulein Riefenstahl in an epic called S. O. S. Iceberg, during...