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...urging those nominations. I might say, of course, that he has been at the Bar for ten years, is generally regarded as capable and efficient, has the poise and the character and the industry, and so long as he was in a receptive mood I was very glad to recommend...
...Little Racketeer," the current production at the Shubert Theater, is just another musical comedy. It has little to recommend it for anything but a pleasant entertainment save a bit of excellent work by the orchestra...
...Governor Roosevelt announced that he would recommend to the special session of the New York Legislature this week "certain definite and necessary measures for the relief of distress and the alleviation of unemployment." Meanwhile New York City was preparing to appropriate $20,000,000 as a relief starter for the winter...
...Tuxedo Park, N. Y. He has also built eleven junior high schools, six vocational schools, one reformatory. Builder Betelle does not claim to have made striking innovations in educational plant design, but if a town wants a school built his firm has plenty of experience with which to recommend itself. From a man who has earned commissions (usually 6%) on $100,000,000 worth of school buildings in 20 years, James O. Betelle's advice to young architects may carry some weight. "I only know," says he, "when I was a lad about 17, getting $2 a week...
Then Dr. Charles Stedman MacFarland resigned from the Federal Council, after admitting that he had been paid by Tsar Hays to lecture on and recommend cinemas. Similar cases followed. Mrs. Jeannette Emmerich, hard working Federal Councilwoman, resigned, admitting that she too had been on the Hays payroll. Meanwhile, The Churchman asserted that Tsar Hays had no influence on cinema producers, pointed out that "block booking" of a producer's products by exhibitors made it impossible for exhibitors to obey anyone's wishes in selecting the pictures shown at their theatres. Tsar Hays threatened to sue The Churchman...