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Next day urbane Lucius Boomer, president of the Waldorf, bought space in Manhattan papers to explain what had happened. Five hundred cooks, waiters and bus boys had, by order of the Amalga mated Food Workers union, "folded arms." According to Mr. Boomer, at 5 p. m. a delegation of A. F. W. representatives, Left Wingers not connected with the A. F. of L., had waited on him to protest the pending dismissal of one of their number for incompetence. Mr. Boomer, who got his start in the hotel business rolling barrels around the basement of a Manhattan Beach hostelry...
...admirals aboard the Kent with royal honors. He obviously wanted to chat about what would happen should Japan try to seize the predominantly Dutch Island of Borneo which also contains the territories of British North Borneo and Sarawak. To Japanese the status of Sarawak might be hard to explain. They might consider it fair game since Sarawak is officially "an independent State," might not attach sufficient importance to the fact that Sarawak is also officially "under the protection of Great Britain." This tie is not weakened by the fact that Rajah Brooke's wife is a daughter...
Well did Congressmen know that in every Legion post throughout the land is posted the record of how each Congressman votes on pensions. Firm is every Congressman's belief that each Legionary can control five votes for or against him. Easy would it be for Congressmen to explain that when the President had unbalanced the budget by nine billions, a few millions more or less for pensions would not matter...
Emil A. Marklewitz who teaches German ("Priceless literary gems were written in German") earns his living as a high-school physics instructor. Joseph R. Blanco, a Reo foreman, teaches Spanish. A high-school teacher and a radio service man explain the mysteries of Radio ("Understand this marvel of the Age"). Alpha Pearl, who teaches the school's most popular course. Stenography ("A profession to professionals-a great convenience to others") at the Y. M. C. A. building, practices her vocation by day at the Kirby Mercantile Agency. There are courses in Dramatic Interpretation at the Reo Club House...
...since then he has been a traction man, a manufacturer, not a banker. Of his 25 directorships not one is on the board of a bank. One of them, however, is on the board of American Car & Foundry Co. of which William Woodin was head. That contact seemed to explain why Mr. Cummings was made president of Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The RFC in its announcement listed among his other qualifications the fact that he "enjoys the personal friendship of President Roosevelt, Secretary Morgenthau and the Comptroller of the Currency J. F. T. O'Connor...