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...first: When the U. S. entered the War it became highly necessary to send a commission abroad to co-ordinate Allied industrial policies with those of the U. S.; there were no funds available to finance the mission; Mr. Baruch paid its expenses, some $85,000, from his own pocket and later declined to be reimbursed. The second: When the War Industries Board disbanded, its hundreds of girl clerks gathered during the War from all over the U.S. were left in Washington without jobs; Mr. Baruch, again out of his own pocket, provided them with expenses home...
...week a dusky little Puerto Rican of 16 wandered past the cutlery counter in a Kress 5-10-25? store on 125th Street . Into Lino Rivera's kinky, stocking-capped head popped the notion of stealing a penknife to match his pen & pencil set at home. Into the pocket of Lino Rivera's leather coat a moment later popped the 10? knife...
...unfortunate that Sir Austen Chamberlain K. G., who had been expected, as a onetime Foreign Secretary and half-brother of Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, to felicitate His Majesty's Government on the "mission to Berlin," abruptly thrust the notes for his speech back into his waistcoat pocket and rushed off to the Chamberlain stronghold of Birmingham...
...week. He was then 26, and had pulled himself up from $6-a-week reporter to business manager of the Rochester Post-Express. He had much to do with the Times's prosperity and with its rigidly high standards of advertising. He was a stickler for efficiency, a pocket-sized dynamo of energy. As many as 18 hours a day he might sit at his desk, his dwarfed body perched on a high cushion, his feet touching a tall hassock beneath the desk. A half dozen visitors or subordinates usually sat in chairs around the walls, waiting their turn...
...Orleans French Quarter night club, John Irving Pierce, 23, free-lance writer, handed his open knife to his companion, Marian King, 23. Miss King stabbed him in the heart. Pierce pulled the knife out of his heart, folded it and put it back in his pocket, handed the girl his wallet, said, "Will you pay the check?" With a roomful of patrons watching him in strict silence, Pierce took five steps toward the door, fell down dead. "That, gentlemen," Miss King told police, "is the way a gentleman dies...