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...Sing Tong is a business, social and fraternal secret organization of American-Chinese whose several thousand members usually get themselves into the papers only by periodic squabblings with their rivals, the On Leongs. Last week, the Hip Sing Tong made news in another way entirely. Simultaneously one night 50 agents of the Treasury Department's Narcotics Bureau conducted a nationwide raid in Chicago, San Francisco, Butte, Pittsburgh and New York. Result was a motley crew of 23 suspects who, according to the Narcotics Bureau's New York head, Major Garland Williams, had used the Tong as the framework...
...editorial in the Philadelphia Record, which carefully expressed gratification at the purchase itself, but made a sociological point on behalf of the "non-bathers." "No less than 41,000 of the city's dwellings-one in every ten-are without bathtubs," said the Record. "One hundred and ten thousand dollars would buy bathtubs for nearly half of these bathtubless dwellings.''* Meanwhile, tubbed and untubbed Philadelphians flocked to see the Cézanne. Mellowing Mr. Widener extended an invitation to all members of the Museum to come out to Lynnewood Hall for a look at his renowned...
...itself an ocean port. Directing this development was a young Chicagoan, Benjamin Casey ("Benjy") Allin, who until the War's end was a captain of engineers. At Houston, Engineer Allin found 50 miles from the Gulf of Mexico a ghost port over whose wharves but a few hundred thousand tons of freight passed each year. After twelve years of Benjy Allin's management, Houston, with 16,000,000 tons of shipping in 1935, was fourth ocean port in the U. S. In 1931, at $1,000 a month, Stockton wooed Engineer Allin away from his astounding Texas creation...
...publisher for his work, he had considerable trouble proving his point that the birds should be reproduced, as he had painted them, life size. "If large," one publisher wrote of the projected book, "only public institutions and a few noblemen will purchase it. If small, it may sell a thousand copies...
...answer, No! In January, 1935, came the news of the appointment of Dick Harlow. The uninformed, not knowing much about Harlow at that time, raised their eyebrows. On January 7, the Crimson joined others in open doubting Bill Bingham's sincerity. The athletic director had only one answer, a thousand times...