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Idle Whiskey. He became Democratic leader by wresting control of the assembly district from one James A. McQuade, member of a family known as the "thirtyfour starving McQuades." He ran for office (alderman, sheriff, etc.) more than 30 times, and "was sent back with glorious colors" every time. He named his headquarters the Greenpoint People's Regular Democratic Organization, welcomed one & all, but kept his telephone padlocked in a wire cage. He opposed Prohibition, cried bitterly: "It's a shame to allow whiskey to lie idle when there's people at Death's door that might...
...Thirtyfour representatives of the four estates-business, labor, agriculture and education-were picked by the President to advise his $50,000,000 National Youth Administration. Among them were: Owen D. Young, aged 60; William Green, 62; Psychologist Charles Hubbard Judd, 62; Bishop Francis John McConnell, 63; President Ernest Hiram Lindley of the University of Kansas, 65; Inventor Hiram Percy Maxim, 65, Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, 66. Some youngsters also got on the committee: A. A. Berle Jr., 40; Amelia Earhart Putnam...
...Thirtyfour, Jewish and a lawyer, David Saperstein is one New Dealer who did not receive his inspiration from Felix Frankfurter and the Harvard Law School. From Columbia he returned across the Hudson to his home town of Union City, N. J., where he soon entered the firm of Platoff, Saperstein & Platoff. The Platoffs and the Sapersteins were old neighbors in suburban Weehawken. Mr. Pecora took him to Washington as his chief assistant in the Senate Banking & Currency Committee investigation. David Saperstein used to play semi-pro baseball, now loves poker and the writing of unpublished plays...
Eliminations for the Boylston and Lee Wade Prizes for Elocution were held in Emerson D yesterday afternoon, commencing at 1 o'clock. The thirtyfour contestants were judged by Robin S. Hillyer '17, associate Professor of English; Gustavus H. Maynadier '89, assistant professor of English; Frederic C. Packard '20, assistant professor Public Speaking; Robert W. Coues '95, instructor in English; and Norman W. Mattis, instructor in Public Speaking...
...WANTED, Young man between twenty-four and thirtyfour, expert scavenger, for a party. Must be tall, personable, poised, and above all quick witted. Locality, Boston. Box 362." "YOUNG LADY, 28, who, stationed in a lonely mission station in the jungles of India, has not seen a white man to talk with in a year, would welcome correspondence with a man of 30 or over, interested in books, music, folks and real living, who is as lonely as she is, 'Teddy.' " "YOUNG man, 22, isolated from all congenial companions, desires correspondence with young man interested in literature and music...