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Judge English got his son a job in a bank in which some $70,000 of bankruptcy money had been placed by the Judge. The son, in addition to a good salary, received from the bank the equivalent of 3% interest on these deposits. Was it legitimate commission for securing the bankruptcy accounts, or was it graft...
...George Dick started to hunt for the germ of scarlet fever with hopes of developing a cure and a preventive. His own money income was meagre. He could get no supplement from institutions. So his wife, Dr. Gladys H. Dick, who has long been his coworker, found a job as technician in an Evanston, Ill., hospital, earned enough money to buy them laboratory supplies, scrimped over their household expenses. They found their germ and two years ago perfected their technique of cure and prevention. Topping this, to them satisfactory reward, the immunologists, bacteriologists and pathologists meeting in Albany recommended...
...school and college writings. His rapid romance and marriage with Kathleen Thompson (author of Mother, The Heart of Rachael, Beloved Woman, Little Ships, The Black Flemings, etc.) are said to have rekindled his literary ambition. After meeting her, he hurried from California to Manhattan and got a job on the American Magazine. In 1915 he found time to write The Amateur, followed shortly by Salt (of young men). After fighting abroad, he wrote Brass (of marriage) and Bread (of business women), both of them big sellers, big cinemas. "This writer's life," says his motherly wife, "has been what...
This year, which is the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the society, is the first year since 1916 that the Menorah Society has gone upon the stage. Ten years ago it gave a play in Jordan Hall called "The Book of Job", which was restored as a Greek tragedy by Dr. H. M. Kallen...
...earth. He elected his brother District Attorney. He went to Russia as confidential secretary to the U. S. Ambassador, and ran away from the Embassy to watch the Russians fight the Germans. But excitement, for him, had to be balanced by achievement. So he accepted from President Wilson the job of Director of the Mint, and served into the Harding Administration...