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...job is to handle cases of jurisdiction concerning prisoners, cases rising out of the prohibition and internal revenue laws and minor cases belonging to several other categories. Lately, in regard to the enforcement of the prohibition laws, she has been making quite a stir. At one time or another she has taken shots at some 45 Federal District Attorneys and other Federal officers whom she believed to be lax. Since Attorney General Stone came to office-came from the law school instead of the school of politics-her attacks are beginning to be backed up by dismissals. In Boston...
...made Acting Director. Attorney General Stone, casting about for a new Director, decided that he preferred a man trained in the Government service rather than one of the great private sleuths who have usually been given the place. So, last week, John Edgar Hoover was sworn in, given the job...
...Both Faculty advisers ad student advisers are given a job which, if done as well as as it should be, is a heavy tax upon the patience and skill of the adviser and which, to the freshman, means more than most of us realize. Members of the Faculty who do not enjoy pouring out their time and advice liberally for the benefit of freshmen ought not to be freshman advisers. Those who are able and willing to advise freshmen skillfully and liberally ought to have their other work slightly reduced so that they might taken on more freshmen...
...what year few know. He disdained school, tramped around the country till his parents indentured him to the captain of a merchant ship for the sum of a shilling a month. He sailed over a great part of the world. In 1902, derelict in Manhattan, he got a job in a saloon serving beer, washing glasses, taking care of the bartender's baby. The poet Yeats encouraged him to write. His works include: The Everlasting Mercy, The Widow in the Bye-Street, Dauber, The Daffodil Fields, Reynard the Fox, Gallipoli (prose), Enslaved...
...vineyard farm in California to find that her prospective husband, an old Italian, has tricked her by sending in place of his own, the photograph of his youthful, wayward, farm hand. The deception discovered, she concludes that even old Tony is preferable to the spaghettied dreariness of her 'Frisco job. Tony breaks both his legs just before the wedding and three months pass. The girl is with child by the farm hand Joe. In a severe and somewhat artificial climax Tony, whom she has mean while come to love, retains her as his wife...