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Leverett: Amory, r.e.; Oppenheimer, r.t.; Hartman, r.g.; Beardsley, c.; Scannell, Viets, l.g.; Weed, l.t.; Dawes, l.e.; Tyng, q.b.; Howe, Stevens, h.b.; Wallace...
Died. Josiah Van Kirk Thompson, 79, retired Pennsylvania coal operator and banker; after long illness; in the 52-room house on the weed-choked ruin of his estate, "Oak Hill," in Uniontown, Pa. Inheriting $100,000 from his father, he gave it to Washington & Jefferson College which had graduated him, started from scratch. Uncannily able to "smell" coal, he built up a $70,000,000 empire, owned more than 140,000 acres of coal land. The War caught him overextended, his bank strained by a transcontinental railroad project. In 1930, flat broke, he was sued by his niece, the Princess...
...righthand man on patronage. Tall, stout, full-faced, Democrat Hurja quickly became a power among job-seekers. Following Jim Farley's formula ("For Roosevelt Before Chicago") he did most of the picking and choosing. Lately he was put into R. F. C. as personnel officer to weed out Republicans, replant Democrats...
...flutter expressively as she talks. She uses the broad Bostonian "A," never gropes for words. In five months Madam Secretary Perkins has started an elaborate investigation by distinguished citizens to improve the Immigration Bureau; organized the new Federal Employment Service; launched a thoroughgoing survey of the shirt industry to weed out sweatshops; jacked up the Labor Statistics Bureau by appointing able Isador Lubin of Brookings Institute as its chief; secured the services of Charles Wyzanski Jr., onetime editor of the Harvard Law Review, as her solicitor. By her non-political appointments she has done much to raise the tone...
...showmanship, the judge should first let the dogs be paraded jauntily around the ring. Then he should have them spaced at even intervals, proceed to his examination. A good judge will probably weed out hopeless specimens during the parade. But he should not forget that every exhibitor has paid an entry fee, thinks his dog has a chance to win. So let the judge at least pretend to give each dog a thorough examination...