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...matter of fact, there remained Australia, a young and frequently obstreperous British dominion. Had rich Mr. Morgenthau, who made his millions in Bronx real estate, forgotten or ignored Australia? By the time newshawks seriously put that question Uncle Henry was already a wheat hero, cackling to everyone his best anecdotes about the days when President Wilson sent him as Wartime Ambassador to Turkey and such yarns as the one about the time he caught Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England "with his vest unbuttoned." (Governor Norman, lolling back with unbuttoned vest, refused to loan an additional...
...Seven U. S. millionaires composed party number one, headed by Wall Street's bear speculator Bernard E. ("Ben") Smith. They included Bernard F. Gimbel, head of Manhattan's Gimbel's; Donald M. Smith, broker (no relation) ; F. S. Argnimbau; Edward J. Flynn, Democratic boss of The Bronx and backer of Franklin Roosevelt; Eddie Dowling, comedian; James Joseph Tunney, financier-sportsman...
Termites multiply rapidly, work slowly but thoroughly. New York's invasion came three years ago; whence, no one knows. Now every section of the metropolitan area is infested. A theatre near Times Square, a building downtown, apartment houses in The Bronx, homes in Queens, Brooklyn, New Jersey, Staten Island are being undermined...
...more handsome Hunter is rising in The Bronx, but in the meantime classes are crowded, jammed in one after another, some in a 32nd Street loft, some in a 52nd Street public school. Many a Hunter girl walks blocks to college, often carrying lunch which she eats in the basement. Half the girls have outside, part-time jobs. A "tradition" of planting ivy from historic places was begun last year in The Bronx. Someone tried to popularize wearing academic gowns but this died out. Hunter thinks its spring "sing" as exciting as Vassar's Daisy Chain or Smith...
...days to allow all to recover their voices. Then once again the court convenes, and 32 veniremen having been dismissed (19 for cause, 13 by peremptory challenges), the jury is complete. The jury consists of a hotel manager, a clerk, a publisher, a traffic manager, a contractor from The Bronx, etc. One of them is an architect hailing from Groton, Yale, and the Beaux-Arts, another a Parkavian civil engineer. The vital first act is over. If Mr. Mitchell is convicted it will not be by the prejudices of a proletarian jury...