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...National Training School for Girls, in Washington, D. C., when plump, hard-working Carrie Weaver Smith became its superintendent last year, compared to the Girls' Industrial School at Beloit roughly as a slum kindergarten compares to Bryn Mawr. Inmates of the N.T.S.G. were some 60 members of the U. S. capital's worst young female riffraff. Most were colored, some white. The majority were three-time offenders. Practically all had either syphilis or gonorrhea. The plant was an obsolete brick building, with badly ventilated rooms and few sanitary facilities. On the theory that the deplorable conditions...
...smooth towers rising 47 stories from Manhattan's Park Avenue, opened its urbane revolving doors just in time to let in the cold whiffs of Depression. Three years later the hotel owed $3,385,000 in back rent to the New York Realty & Terminal Co. and tall, plump President Lucius Boomer had to handle a strike of restaurant workers (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934). Last week two celebrations at the Waldorf gave evidence that after three more years its staff and management were at least happy together. In the Empire Room for three days there was an exhibition...
...long as his plump World-Herald continued to get nearly three-fourths of Omaha's newspaper revenue, cautious Publisher Henry Doorly was glad to have William Randolph Hearst's afternoon Bee News drone about, frightening away any stronger competition. But last week when the concluding edition of the long-doomed Bee News went to press at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon, Publisher Doorly was in Chicago to hand Hearst representatives a $750,000 check for the Bee News plant and its 95,000 circulation...
...continued success of their security program, Mormons were at the same time asked to pray and work. Pithy, ominous Mormon advice went out to all Church members from the First Counselor in the potent, three-man First Presidency-plump J. (for Joshua) Reuben Clark Jr., able lawyer, able onetime colleague and successor of Dwight Whitney Morrow as U. S. Ambassador to Mexico. Counselor Clark warned Mormons of the next depression, "more serious, affecting intimately far greater numbers of people than the one we are now finishing. To prepare for this coming disaster we must avoid debt as we would avoid...
...years ago, in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, there were four persons known, by name at least, to the most assiduous tourist and most casual habitué. These were: Flossie Martin, plump, china-cheeked ex-show girl; Kiki, black-haired, impish French painters' model; Nina Hamnett, English painter and expert on sailors' chanteys; Jimmy Charters, ruddy-faced and unfailingly genial barman. The four were not friends, were in fact rather rivals, each ruling a separate coterie-the ladies at their tables at the Dome, Rotonde or Select, Jimmy at whatever bar he happened to be tending...