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...nose at him as a pretty common variety of politician. Since then the Capital has revised its opinion. Commissioner Allen is credited with having done a good job of reorganizing local relief agencies. To solve the question of whether liquor stores shall be permitted in the wet-dry Tacoma Park section of the city, he has called an election, the first time since 1848 that Washingtonians have had a chance to cast votes...
...then forming his notorious Tobacco Trust. In 1901 he made a killing on the short side of Amalgamated Copper. Early in his career he was almost wiped out on the short side of American Sugar. In 1904 he got a commission of $1,000.000 for buying the Selby and Tacoma smelters for the Guggenheims. He added to his fortune by buying into the immensely successful Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. in 1909 shortly after it was founded. He made nearly half a million by selling U. S. Steel short during the "peace scare" in the late months of 1916. All these...
...Mutual Health Service which, at a probable cost of about $27 a year per person, will insure full medical care to families earning less than $1,500 a year. People who want a concrete idea of what group medicine can become could look last week to Tacoma, Wash. Tacoma's Dr. Albert Wellington Bridge. 54, had just signed a new 20-year-lease on Ohanapecosh Hot Springs in Mount Rainier National Park. His Ohanapecosh resort is but a sideline with Dr. Bridge. His main business is the health of some 10,000 Washington lumbermen and miners who are under...
...Sioux City and Mother Hopkins was a devout Methodist, an active member of the Iowa Home Missionary Society. Harry ("Hi"), 43, the third of their five children, takes after neither. Like his elder sister Adah (now selling insurance in Manhattan) and his elder brother (now a doctor in Tacoma), he worked his way through Grinnell College. He was also a member of the state tennis team. He wanted to publish a newspaper in Montana, but instead he took his first job as a Director of Boys Work with Christodora House, a "settlement" institution on Avenue B, Manhattan. From that time...
Bing Crosby is probably the world's best paid male singer ($275,000 a year). For Going Hollywood he got $75,000. He was born in Tacoma, Wash, in 1904. studied law at Gonzaga University, failed to take his bar examination, became a "hot" singer with Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys. When William Paley of Columbia Broad casting System heard a Crosby phono graph record, Bing was hired to sing on the radio for Cremo cigars, imitating Rudy Vallee's low register quavers. Now almost as popular as Vallee in the U. S. and Eng land, Crosby...