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...merchant tailors gross $80,000,000 annually (1932), they clothe less than one out of every 100 U. S. males. And tailors like Twyeffort and Bell of Manhattan, Dunne of Boston, Stewart of Philadelphia do only a fraction of that business. But the customers for whom they make $120 sack suits (1929 price: $150) are generally to be found sitting at the head of most directors' tables or behind ultra-modest little signs labeled "The President...
...woolen mill. Sackville was settled 135 years ago and has stood still ever since. Its streets are unpaved. It has no running water, no sewers, no electricity. Almost every wage-earner among its 300 residents works in the mill. Last week the cry of "Anthrax!" prompted Rudolph H. Sack, owner of mill and town, to advise a general evacuation of Sackville...
...Owner Sack had the ground around the mill cleansed with burning gasoline, equipped his workers with masks and gloves. But he did not decide to evacuate the town until the parents of a child who had lost an eye from anthrax threatened to sue him. Last week he bluntly explained that workers are covered by industrial insurance, but that his company could not pay compensation for illness or death of nonworkers & children...
...Housing and Labor Departments moved in on Sackville. The Health Department told residents they need not move, since anthrax is infectious but not contagious and hence there was no danger of an epidemic. The Housing Department launched an investigation with a view to cleaning up the hovels provided for Sack workers. The Labor Department gave Owner Sack 30 days to install sanitary lunch, dressing and toilet facilities, make his mill a decent place to work...
...Julius II, hardbitten, bearded warrior Pope; Lucrezia Borgia, who "had four charms, not to mention a slight voluptuous cast in one eye. She was vapid, she was virtuous, she smelled of man, and she did not understand art." For graphic historical writing, Author Roeder's picture of the sack of Rome (1527) will stand with the best of them. And everywhere through the magnificent murk sound the great names, like bells: Borgia, Delia Rovere, Medici, Este. Gonzaga, Sforza...