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George A. Condon, manager of the shop, was willing to go to any extreme in order that his thriving business might be continued. According to him, between six and seven thousand customers make use of his emporium during the course of the college year, and he considers 40 haircuts a day about average. Condon revealed that the barber shop has been in operation since the building of the Union...
Only twenty-five per cent of the state's registered voters bothered to vote at all; of these half were either too lazy, or too undecided as to whom they wanted, to write down their choice for President. Roosevelt had twenty thousand supporters, and the eight delegates pledged to him were elected with almost no opposition. Seventy thousand citizens took the trouble to write in Landon's name; the Republican delegates, though unpledged, will hardly be apt to defy such a clearly expressed sentiment...
During the next 45 months Uncle Sam paid me $4,500 for board and clothes, and handed another thousand to the Bursar and the vendors of textbooks, for books, tuition, laboratory fees etc. On Commencement Day I placed third in a class of 22. Uncle handed me $200 and his blessing, suggesting that I find a job before the $200 ran out. I located one in the paper game and am still...
...scuttled back to the hills. Correspondent Steer and the British major waited no longer. Loading four Seventh Day Adventist missionaries and a sick Belgian officer into the back of their truck, they lit out for Addis Ababa. Just as they left town the hillsides behind them flashed like a thousand fireflies with blazing rifles. Aeroplane-directed Galla warriors marched into deserted Dessye, followed by Fascist legions two days later...
...Walter Bernard Coffey, pugnacious chief surgeon of Southern Pacific Railroad, who bosses the politicians who control the practice of medicine in California. Results: California Medical Association last year practically bolted from the American Medical Association. The A. M. A. refused to elect a California doctor as trustee. Eleven thousand California doctors have virtually no say concerning the practice of their profession...