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...because he was neither venal nor lazy. When his fellow agents were reporting for work. Izzy would appear with a dozen prisoners. His industry, affability and ingenious disguises made and kept him headline news. Some of his makeups: Negro, Italian fruit-vendor, iceman, longshoreman, gasfitter, judge. Cornell undergraduate, streetcar conductor, carpenter, trombone-player (when demonstrating his ability he played ''How Dry I Am"). Once he was admitted to a speakeasy on the strength of being a Prohibition agent; the barkeeper thought it was a good joke till Izzy arrested him. When he had become a household word...
...Chicago startled streetcar passengers were evicted from the car while Sarah Johnson, colored, gave birth to a baby. Sarah Johnson said the circumstances provided a name for the child, called it "Caroline...
...Morgan Shepard was shipped to a boarding school in Germany where he was "manhandled, bullied, and misguided almost beyond endurance." At 17 he began vagabonding around the U. S. and Central America, working in mines, on farms, cattle ranches, freighters. In California he was hired as a streetcar conductor, fired for letting youngsters ride free. He got a job as bookkeeper in a San Francisco bank, held and hated it for 13 years. In the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 he suffered injuries to his shoulder and foot. Short while later in Manhattan he underwent an operation...
...schoolhouse for children of U. S. and British engineers and workmen now helping Russia with her Five-Year Plan. Fond parents faced painful alternatives. The school, as Soviet officials frankly admitted, will try to turn every pupil into a little Bolshevik. But the Government offered free tuition & textbooks, reduced streetcar fares and for each hungry pupil a heaping hot lunch at 15?-such a lunch as would otherwise cost in Moscow at least...
...famed & frequent. Just as many a tycoon seeks relaxation in reading, playing a violin, constructing ship models or painting. Mr. Joyce has his escape mechanism. When he wants to be alone he buys a couple of apples, rides for an hour or so on the back platform of a streetcar. His handshake has a vertical range of three feet. Nobody dares guess the range of his plans for Great Western...