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...store in San Angelo and changed his name from Lapowski to Dillon before Clarence was born"-because-and I speak in a great measure from personal knowledge- The American career of the Dillon-Lapowski family began in Victoria, Texas m the persons of Sam (Dillon's father) and Nathan-a Capt. & Col. in the Texas National Guard-serving in the World War with an enviable record. Sam moved to San Angelo & ran a general store in the name of and was always known as Lapowski: though Clarence had already "arrived" (his first) or did so during that residence...
...LIFE IN URSCHEL KIDNAPPING the sedate, careful Indianapolis News last week printed a photograph of five men whose solemn expressions supplied the only possible excuse for mistaking them for convicted kidnappers. They were Steel Tycoons Myron C. Taylor. George M. Laughlin, Ernest T. Weir, Eugene G. Grace and Lawyer Nathan L. Miller, representing the American Iron & Steel Institute. The scene was not Oklahoma City but the steps of the White House, where the five had been photographed after a conference with the President...
Guards in the State Penitentiary at Joliet, Ill. had to carry two murderers named Sullivan and Scott to solitary confinement when, too drunk to walk, they bellowed "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" in a cellhouse. Present but sober were Murderers Nathan Leopold, prison librarian, and Richard Loeb, who conducts a correspondence school for convicts. They said they had "just dropped in." were excused...
Mister Percy-Only one of Lazarus Straus's three sons stayed with Macy's- Isidor. Nathan branched out for himself. Oscar was thrice Minister to Turkey and Theodore Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce & Labor-first Jew to sit in the Cabinet. It was Isidor's three sons who pushed Macy's sales to nearly $100,000,000 in 1929 and held them to $80,000,000 last year. The eldest grandson, Jesse Isidor, who insists on having his middle name spelled out and who contributed heavily to the Democratic campaign, resigned as president to serve...
...reading to every member of the Harvard Socialist-Liberal-Club-Students'-League Knights-of-the-White-Kamelia organization. Further than this there is not hide nor hair of H. L. to be found, and this commentator believes that the man should be told by his best friend, G. J. Nathan perhaps, that it is time for Mr. Mencken to come to the aid of his country, even though he feel as lazy as an Indiana farmer in February...