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...command, he pursued the "racket" of organizing other unions. Percentages of the dues kept "Big Tim" and his pretty-doll wife in style. But evidently someone else needed the percentages from the cleaners and dyers, because one night last week, after "Big Tim's" doorbell had rung and he had answered it, an automobile rolled slowly by in the dark street, spitting a mechanical stream of fire and lead. "Big Tim" died where he stood. Accustomed to gangster funerals in Chicago, the United Press issued a laconic bulletin on the Murphy ceremony before it took place. "A cortege...
...probability the answer lies in none of these suggestions. Today--and even more so tomorrow--a Bachelor's degree is but the bottom rung in the educational ladder. Men choosing the pedagogic field must now prepare to leap the hurdles of the Master's and the Doctor's letters. Therefore although many have the teaching profession in mind they hesitate to announce their decision on entering the graduate school, realizing that further study may possibly lead them into paths divergent from the professorial chair. A man entering the Law School or the Medical School has his future definitely decided...
...unanimous vote of the Sobranye (Parliament) all taxes were increased 20% to provide a relief fund. In quake areas a curfew bell was rung at 9 p. m., and persons seen prowling near shattered buildings after that hour were presumed to be thieves and fired upon at sight by military sentries. Profiteering in food or building materials was checked by a special law providing that offenders should have their entire property confiscated and should receive publicly 25 lashes...
...reflex is the simplest nervous reaction. A dog will smell food and turn in its direction. Nature believes in preparedness and the dog will secrete saliva as he goes for the food. Only the lower parts of the brain are concerned in this reaction. But, if a bell is rung every time the food appears, there will come a time when the dog will secrete saliva at the sound of the bell when there is no food in sight...
...Cincinnati, Ohio). From newsboy and printer's devil in Knoxville, Tenn., he had risen to publisher of the New York Times. Said Alfred Morton Cohen, of the Hebrew Union College in Manhattan, where Mr. Ochs is chairmanning a $5,000,000 endowment drive: "As Adolph Ochs has climbed rung by rung the ladder of fame and fortune, his love for his fellowmen has increased more and more...