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...scandal in London last week. As for Sir Isaac Isaacs, he, apart from being a brilliant lawyer and an able politician, is ideally fitted to receive viceregal honors by the dignity of his present office: Chief Justice of the Australian High Court. Born the son of an humble Australian tailor, Sir Isaac will be the first "native" representative of the Crown in a Dominion. The Thunderer. Other London newspapers did not receive the Royal plaint. There was no "hand out" to the press. Alone "The Thunderer" (the London Times} spoke in editorial guise a piece personally approved...
Cabman Markin began as a tailor, entered the cab trade through the investment route. He organized Checker Cab which builds taxis, advises customers, but actually has operated no cabs itself. Although Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing is a big competitor, Mr. Markin probably is reassured by the fact that John Jacob Raskob is Checker's largest individual stockholder...
Declared Jeann Friedman, tailor to New York's natty Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker: "I made the Mayor 30 suits a year and never did I see a turnout like that! Why, that's tragic...
...Barthelemy Thimmonier, a tailor of St. Etienne...
Joseph Hare was an outlaw dandy, a city boy in the wilderness. After a lucrative career along the Trace, he was captured in a Baltimore tailor's shop, buying fancy clothes...