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...Raskob's ethical sense is so fine and his general sensibilities so readily aroused, it might be worth while to ask how it happens that he has my mail. Did he himself rifle the mails or did some of his Tammany stool-pigeons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Red Hot Stuff | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...Divorced. fMr. McAndrew, able, no stool pigeon, has sued Mayor Thompson for libel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: McAndrew's Successor | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...Chicago board of education voted unanimously, last week, to make placid, bushy-haired William J. Bogan superintendent of public schools. He had been acting superintendent since last August when William McAndrew, famed "stool pigeon of King George," was ousted by Mayor William Hale Thompson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: McAndrew's Successor | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...Foundry Co., held a directors' meeting. Mr. Woodin was suffering from a fractured patella; hence the meeting was held in Mr. Woodin's hospital bedchamber where he sat, like a squire with the gout, one bandaged leg propped up in front of him on a cushioned stool. Despite his injuries, Mr. Woodin was capable of declaring dividends of $1.75 on American Car & Foundry's $30,000,000 preferred stock (the regular amount); of $1.50 on its 600,000 shares of no par value common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 11, 1928 | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...years ago a meagre, slight dress maker, she crouched with pins in her mouth at the feet of a fat woman. The client was standing on a low fitting-stool, and from her rotund torso hung the drapes of a negligee that stubbornly would not seem stylish. Dressmaker Lane Bryant sat back on her heels and studied the paunchiness; she stood up and walked meditatively around it. She saw where she could alter the hang, and, stooping over, with swift fingers pinned folds here, there. The negligee fit smartly. Lane Bryant slipped it off her customer; basted it; stitched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Stout Women | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

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