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Youngest Manhattan financial editor is Julius George Berens of Hearst's American. Now 31, short, swart, he entered his profession as a newsboy, has been office boy, stenographer, reporter, columnist (under the pseudonym "Broadan Wall"). Wasted on the majority of its 600,000 straphanging readers is the Evening Journal's alert financial section run by able, aggressive Leslie Gould...
...automobile sped into that part of New York City which lies north of the Harlem River, ground to a halt at the great Bronx Terminal Market. Foodhandlers, working under arc lights, stopped to stare and pound their frozen hands together, as out of the car emerged a small, swart Napoleonic figure wrapped in a greatcoat. The man mounted, with assistance, the tailboard of a truck, took a paper from his pocket. Two shivering policemen braced their shoulders, put bugles to their chapped lips, sounded assembly. Half way through the call one bugle gave a despairing wail, froze tight. Provision...
...court of the King of Kings, swart, dynamic Reza Shah Pahlavi of Iran, arrived last week news which seemed to good Iranians almost unbelievable. Some natives of America, described as Marylanders, were said to have perpetrated a most shocking outrage in an outlandish place called Elkton, discoverable only with difficulty on Persian maps. In this apparently wild and uncivilized region natives had set upon the King of King's august Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary Ghaffar Khan Djalal on the ground that his car was "speeding"-the natural right of a great Khan. As she should beat...
...Knockout." Thus did Challenger Sixto Escobar, swart, pint-sized Puerto Rican, haltingly predict to newshawks last week the outcome of his bout with Champion Lou Salica for the world's bantamweight crown. When the savage 15-round struggle was over, Escobar was proved two-thirds correct. By a steady body attack, he won the decision, reversed the result of their first meeting three months...
...inalienable right to sell its belongings at its own figures. Particularly stressed was the point that Macy's had signed no contract with Doubleday, that two strangers had made an arbitrary agreement which the State law said Macy's must observe. For Doubleday, small, swart, smart Lawyer Ernst admitted various U. S. Supreme Court decisions against price maintenance, but pointed out that the Double-day-Macy argument was an intrastate affair. He said that New York courts could overrule the New York Legislature only when the legislative act could be shown to be arbitrary and unreasonable. But there...