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...enjoyed their season of greatest prestige five years ago when the Charleston craze was at its zenith. Before that the Dancing Masters had been comparatively a small organization. But the impetus given dancing by the crazy Negro jazz-jig was felt by hordes of people who had never before trod a ballroom floor. Schools by the hundreds mushroomed all over the land. Applicants deluged Dancing Masters for membership. Today they are the largest professional group in the world...
...friends last week admitted he might have underworld dealings, but they insisted his record of recent years (investigator for Henry Ford in the Newberry case, special investigator on other cases for the U. S. Government, two years as a radio crusader, winter employment aid) demonstrated that he no longer trod dark paths, was trying to make a moral name for himself...
...than what Mr. McCampbell did was what Major Campbell last week said. The Treasury Department, still his employer, ordered him to Boston as Alcohol Permit Inspector. He refused to go, resigned from the service, issued a bristling statement: "I have . . . revoked . . . many permits with political backing and have thus trod on many political toes. . . . There are certain brewery permits, whiskey permits and alcohol permits that local politicians and certain Administration officials in Washington feel must be restored in order to secure necessary support for the Republican ticket in New York this fall. With me in charge of permits...
Judge Rutherford's deed can scarcely be considered eccentric, for his conviction that the sunny boulevards of San Diego are soon to be trod by men with the light of ages in their eyes is presumably shared by the 1,000,000 members of the International Bible Students Association and the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, of both of which Judge Rutherford is President. In 34 nations these members have read his declarations as editor of both the Watch Tower and Golden Age magazines...
Rotund, big-voiced, bad-land-bred, city-smoothed, General Manager Koenigsberg will not seem out of place around the office of the Denver Post, where once trod fleshy, practical-joking, hard-boiled H. H. Tammen. Nor will a Hearstman be any novelty to Publisher Bonfils, who imported a setting of them in the Yellow '905 when he first began to make his paper a hissing to indiscreet Denver citizens...