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...subsidize this vacant dream, Jason has been acting as front man for a black mobster called Lewis (Benjamin "Scatman" Crothers) and doing some fast real estate shuffling with a couple of cavernous old hotels (It is very desirable to erect hotels on account of the very large rental...). Irretrievably second rate, hopelessly outsmarted by the black gangsters, Jason sees his dreams of glory collapse like one of the rotten piers along the ocean's edge (A player is bankrupt when he owes more than...
Summer Soldiers concentrates mostly on the plight of a rather vacant...
Other things just don't work. The most glaring example is the entrance corridor. Almost vacant except for a few dying trees and some sofas on either side of the information booth, one is left with the distinct feeling that the entrance space was not designed but simply left over after the auditorium, studio, and library had been designed Toshiro Katayama's hangings, although bright, have become a hackneyed attempt at enlivening a dead space where perhaps student projects would be better exhibited...
...four investigative reporters, and one young rewrite man who infiltrated the Chicago board of election commissioners. In charge was George Bliss, 53, veteran of many exposes and Pulitzer prizewinner. Bliss, who had done earlier stories on election fraud, got a break last spring when he learned of a vacant patronage job at the election board. Of 200 positions, only four were for Republicans, including the $20-a-day clerk's post. To fill it Bliss needed an "inside man" at the Trib, one who would not be recognized by city officials. He chose William Mullen, 27, who has only...
...equipment has exceeded $90,000. Some of this expense will be defrayed by wages HSA will pay scholarship students, which Ryan estimated will total $20,000. In addition, HSA will pay interest on the equipment, and become the first rent-paying occupant of a building that has been vacant since the Printing Office moved out earlier this year...