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...Mesopotamia, he learned unexpectedly that no ship sailed in time for him to attend a church conference in Des Moines, Iowa. Undaunted, he radioed a U. S.-bound oil tanker for passage, was told that he would be taken aboard only if he signed on as an engine-room wiper. For three torrid weeks, 66-year-old Bishop Warne wiped engines, was still in greasy dungarees when met at the docks...
...year. Bulwarks of the association, though numerically far in the minority, are the Big Four Brotherhoods: firemen & enginemen, trainmen, conductors, engineers, to the number of 310,000. President of the firemen & enginemen's brotherhood is David Brown Robertson, who started railroading as an engine wiper on the Pennsylvania. He is also chairman of the executives' association, is therefore the Voice of organized railroad labor...
...great philanthropy, he yet wished to do something in his remaining years to express his thanks for the good things life had brought him, something to make life pleasanter for the citizens of Yamagata. He started on a campaign that soon won him the affectionate nickname of Nose Wiper, a campaign which, spreading to Tokyo, recently brought him an interview with a Tokyo reporter, Mr. S. Okuyama...
...MacDonald, whose first London job, at 19, earned him $2.40 a week for addressing envelopes for a bicycle touring club, announced in the Commons, in his capacity as First Lord of the Treasury, that he had increased the salary of Lord Privy Seal "Jim" Thomas, sharp-tongued onetime engine-wiper, from $10,000 to $25,000, because of extra duties as minister in charge of unemployment. Prominent Laborites agitated last week to increase also the salaries of the Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, at present barely sufficient to pay the expenses of their official red brick residences...
Rumored Specifications. With what purported to be bona fide information, Detroit newspapers last week described the new motor car to be produced by the Ford Motor Co. as having for standard equipment a self-starter, five wire wheels, speedometer, windshield wiper, gasoline gauge, oil gauge, dash light, Houdaille shock absorbers and four-wheel brakes; 34-h.p. engine; gearshift transmission; 104-inch wheel base; selling-price from $450 for the touring model, to $490 for the Fordor sedan and coup...