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...court as an issue between Vice and Respectability. With luck, perjured witnesses and slick manipulation Benson was acquitted. Benson might have gone unpunished to his grave had not the Furies taken a hand in hounding him. Human avengers came to his hideout too late, but had the workman-like satisfaction of chucking what was left of him into the Five Points rat-pit. Author Komroff's tale of 100-year-old Manhattan is no lavender-scented memorial, but a crude, almost reportorial narrative which lets the background take care of itself. A New York Tempest is a tale...
...When the War began I was a lamplighter. Being also a Fleming I naturally took part in the Flemish independence movement. For this I was persecuted by the Government. I lost my job as lamplighter. ' Now I am only a common workman and work is scarce. My motive for firing among the Deputies was personal revenge. I hoped to wound but I did not want to kill." (Deputy Uytroever was expected to recover...
...reaching Bucharest, M. Titulescu hurried to lunch with King Carol. Suddenly there were screams as of a man in mortal terror. Rushing to the window His Majesty & Guest saw a three-story scaffolding set up against the Royal Palace collapse, saw a workman mad with terror plunge to death...
...Strauss, assistant corporation counsel in charge of the City Workmen's Compensation Bureau, who designated the four, generally accepted their bills without question. The doctors themselves remarkably often did not know for what they were charging. Dr. Feinberg, for example, charged $47 for four x-rays of a workman's hand, and nine office calls "for repair of wounds." The man had an injured right toe. Dr. Cassasa once charged for "strapping a foot" of an employe who had hurt his left thumb. Another employe cut a finger of his right hand. The bill to the city...
...through an old age State pension law. He has won permission to raise $50,000,000 by bonds to house the State's sick, insane and criminal. He has reduced rural taxes. He has advanced a broad program for reforestation. He has put more occupational diseases under the Workman's Compensation Act, improved rent laws. President William Green of the American Federation of Labor has praised his record on labor legislation. The Governor is now engaged in a stiff upping of income taxes to supply funds for Unemployment relief...