Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattan tabloids shivered deliciously all last week. A bigwig racketeer whom the police had been after for six months had been captured in bed with a red-headed showgirl, which is the sort of story that gives tabloid editors the courage to go on. The racketeer was Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis, lawyer for Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer and, since Mr. Flegenheimer's death by violence in 1935, the head of the biggest, crookedest, most profitable racket in the U. S.-the Harlem numbers game. The showgirl was Hope Dare (Rose Ricker), whose chief professional appearance...
Enlarging upon this warning, the author continues, "Harvard men are generally the most dangerous of college chums. Princeton men are smooth enough, and Yaleys handsome enough. But Harvard men, like Radcliffe women, have a deeper culture. Harvard education is of the academic sort; it has no practical applications, soaked in the experiences of a long distant past, and experience in the most effete of circles--for they are generally well-to-do families--they emerge very sophisticated, very smooth and very formidable...
...roof be placed over prices? The government can, of course, use its power as a purchaser to bring prices down. But it would have to face the same sort of reaction that greeted the Walsh-Healey act. The refusal of big steel to bid on navy contracts came pretty near to being a sit down strike. And the government can try to instill new vigor in America's puny consumers cooperatives movement...
...economic difficulties has been found, the Governor said. "It has been my experience with the more than a million people on relief in Pennsylvania, that all but two or three per cent will willingly give up relief if they are offered employment with reasonable prospects of permanency and any sort of decent wages...
There's some sort of a quotation that says the old must yield place to the new. Hemenway Gymnasium is living up to it with a vigor surprising for such an old building. But Hemenway's present liveliness is not her own; it comes from a gang of beauty-lovers professionally known as the Central Building Wrecking Company...