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...corps of plumbing, heating, brick and carpentry inspectors who drew $75 per week from the city. Their official work was not heavy and he saw to it that they were men who could carry their election districts. With the aid of this political organization he was able to stave off efforts to cancel his contract in 1905, 1913, 1916, 1932, was even able to get contracts for other city jobs. When a hostile administration hired another architect to build a hospital unit, Johnson sued, made the city...
...days," one officer remarked, "when we had a frisky mule and a good cold day, she'd throw the riders in no time, and go out and give us a show, but now the best we can get have to be hit with a barrel stave before they show any action...
...anonymous monsters, whose thousand arms grope, and whose blind trunks lap in the dark. And the few individuals, whose personalities . . . still keep afloat . . . are nearly all, today, artificial products, without roots or seeds, without ancestors or descendants, without ties, associates or future." This is the theme of the latest stave in Romain Rolland's protracted swan son?. Author Rolland's famed ten-volume Jean Christophe, published before the War, told everything there was to tell about a musician of genius. The Soul Enchanted, of which the Death of a World is the fourth but not last installment...
Despite a last-minute spurt of power and tightening up of form all around, the Harvard Varsity eight was unable to stave off a 2 3/4 length defeat at the hands of the Tiger, in its first intercollegiate contest of the season Saturday afternoon in the Basin. Princeton had gained a sizeable lead at the getaway, and held it easily almost until the end of the fast 1 3/4 mile course, finishing in 9 minutes, 18 seconds, as compared with the Crimson boat, which crossed the line in 9 minutes, 27 seconds. M.I.T. came in a poor third, about three...
...farm bill Senator Wheeler from silver-producing Montana offered an amendment for 16-to-1 free coinage of the metal. Close on its heels trod Senator Frazier with an amendment for fiat money, Senator Connally for dollar devaluation, many another. The Democratic leadership, unable to stave off a vote, decided to stand and fight the currency inflationists. That meant standing and fighting one man-John William Elmer Thomas, senior Senator from Oklahoma, who for two years has been the ringleader of Congressional inflationists. This tall (6 ft. 2 in.) well-groomed Senator with slick, grey hair above a round, solemn...