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...years of its history Crane Co. has had only four presidents, three of them Cranes. First was the founder who until his death in 1912 delighted in annoying Chicago socialites by insisting that he was nothing but a plumber. The next two Presidents Crane were his sons, Charles and Richard Jr. Son Charles preferred politics and traveling to plumbing and by appointment of President Wilson in 1920 became U. S. Minister to China shortly after his own son had become first U. S. Minister to Czechoslovakia. Son Richard also liked traveling but liked it best when he was roving...
...Grand Elector Max has succeeded in creating Danubia out of Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia. Upon an economic stage set with starvation wages and rock-bottom farm prices steps a new Messiah. He is Johann Zimri, son of a Hungarian plumber who combines a knowledge of psychotherapy and osteopathy with the perfect bedside manner. Scores take to his simple belief that a little of God is in every man. With this magic, Zimri wins over an important industrialist, the Danubia youth movement, a onetime mistress of the Grand Elector, a leading journalist. In spite of this backing, the Messiah...
With these words a Federal judge in Pittsburgh last week addressed five laborers, two clerks, two farmers, two engineers, two mechanics, a bank clerk, a writer, a lumber dealer, a carpenter, a plumber and a banker. He was instructing them in their duties as grand jurors...
...around the temples. A quick smile keeps extra wrinkles in his wrinkled, ruddy face. He has to wear glasses when he motors or reads, takes them off for lectures. When he is not writing diplomatic history he likes to paint, fish, photograph, putter around the house. No carpenter or plumber is ever needed by the Dennett household. Father of four, he got his two eldest sons to help him put up the family garage...
Near suburban Barbizon, spiritual home of the world's greatest landscape painters, Mayor Roger could contain himself no longer last week. The village plumber had been to the Villa Ker Monique to repair pipes. He had found it barricaded with barbed wire and guarded by two fierce watchdogs. He had been locked in the room in which he worked. The village postman added the sinister fact that no mail ever came to Ker Monique. A courier on a motorcycle came there every day from Paris. With Stavisky, international spy rings, and rumors of brewing civil wars to inflame French...