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Died. Benjamin Schlesinger, 55, founder-president of potent International Ladies' Garment Workers Union; of tuberculosis; in Colorado Springs, Colo. Lean, rangy, bitterly intense. Founder Schlesinger was regarded as one of Labor's ablest leaders, his union as one of the strongest...
Herbert is heavily built, a noisy dynamo even at play. Mortimer is lean, quiet, takes his fun and work quietly. On the golf course Herbert shatters opponents' nerves by the way he chatters, exults, boasts, bets. His directors are fearful of accepting cigars from him lest they explode in mid-meeting. His cigaret cases have been known to contain alarming jack-in-the-boxes...
...long joint meeting, San Franciscans guessed that the merged bank would probably be called Anglo California National Bank, that it would be housed in Anglo & London's big building at Market & Sansome Streets rather than in Anglo-California's building. It was taken for granted that lean, polite Brother Mortimer would be chairman, loud Brother Herbert president. For Brother Herbert has shown ability not only in the mechanics of banking and investment but also in the delicate matter of contact with customers. He has often so genially laughed off his "inability" to lend money that the would...
...with everything from the rise of the pants business to the fall of women's skirts in the United States, History 55 is the salt and pepper course in American History. Earlier courses in the field emphasize the economic and political sides of the edifice. This course sets a lean-to side on the building by attempting to present the social and intellectual development of America...
...Spring," we wish to point out, is a euphemism. It is not our intention to lean on authority, but Mr. Samuel Clemens was not the first to comment on the weather of Boston and its on-virons. Nor, indeed, was he the last; we, in our time have been moved to expressions of opinions which your estimable sheet would certainly not be safe in printing. If the vernal urge, whatever that is, is at any moment roused, it is in the next moment squelched by one of those inimitable gusts of Boston atmosphere. How anyone can really get spring fever...