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When William Marcy Tweed bossed Tammany Hall and New York City, political livelihoods were made by out-&-out peculation. Boss Charles Francis Murphy brought the city contract racket to its juiciest fruition. But fashions in municipal graft change. Nowadays Tammany feeds largely on the real estate and building businesses. How it is done was clearly illustrated last week by Inquisitor Samuel Seabury to the eight-month-old Republican-controlled Legislative investigation of New York City's administration...
Because of a peculiar stipulation made by Mrs. Stanford, the endowment contract states that there shall not at any time be more than 500 women enrolled in the University. Consequently, Stanford's campus social life is also peculiar...
Photostatic copies of the original papers reveal that Edison, as a struggling young inventor, signed over half rights in all his future inventions in return for $40 each. Years later the holder of this contract entered suit against Edison for $30.000. After a short time the plaintiff retained Benjamin F. Butler, Civil War general and one-time presidential candidate, who made a dramatic entrance into the case by immediately raising the amount of the suit to $230,000. The case was finally settled out of court at the figure...
Martha Fall, granddaughter of imprisoned onetime Secretary of Interior Albert Bacon Fall, rejected a cinema contract (proffered because schoolmates had voted her "most beautiful"), got a job as reporter on the El Paso Herald-Post...
...midst of concocting the Prince Albert program. Quick to appreciate the husky, vibrant quality which makes some mediocre voices broadcast better than finer, better trained ones, Advertiser Gannon was just as quick to sell his find to Prince Albert for $3,000 a week, on a year's contract. By the maxim that anyone who pleases the client is a radio success, Alice Joy is made. She sings over one of the biggest hook-ups in a series which will cost Prince Albert approximately $1,000,000. Her songs, like Minstrel Downey's, are of the mellow, persuasive...