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...Dillinger was shooting his way out of a local apartment house. But the Daily News's agitation last year helped St. Paul elect a reform Mayor who appointed as Commissioner of Public Safety Henry Edward ("Ned") Warren, a conscientious citizen who came fresh to politics from his automobile salesroom. Commissioner Warren wanted to import Alexander Jamie of Chicago's old "Secret Six" organization as police chief. In spite of Jamie's record as a onetime Federal sleuth who gave criminal Chicago a wash behind the ears, St. Paul's city fathers balked at bringing...
...Townsend opened the Plan's first office last November in the rear of a Long Beach real estate salesroom, with a one-legged man as assistant, a Salvation Army protege as janitor. Success was quick. California's myriad oldsters came in masses to his meetings. By thousands they bought his 25¢ pamphlet. They sent the word back East to the old home-folks...
...have studied medicine if her first lesson in dissection had not repelled her, had long experimented with plants for cooking and scent blending. An energetic woman, she has written previous books on the herbal art, founded the Society of Herbalists, established Culpeper House in London as herbalist headquarters and salesroom. Mrs. Leyel has a rural home near Bognor, Sussex, where King George convalesced from his chest ailments. At Bognor, it is said, certain of the Grieve-Leyel made their way into the royal dishes if not into the royal medicines...
Maintaining a passive silence, Killer Burke gave no clue as to his activities during the past 18 months, refused to disclose his trail from St. Joe, Mich, to St. Joe, Mo. But his automobile was purchased last fortnight in Chicago from a salesroom next door to Ralph ("Bottles") Capone's Cotton Club...
...Knudsen of Chevrolet Motors has been devising more and better ways of helping his dealers sell Chevrolets. Dealers have cooperated finely. But they, and he, wanted more dealers' helps. So President H. T. Ewald of Campbell-Ewald Co., Chevrolet's able advertising agency, opened a Chevrolet salesroom in Detroit on his own account and last week with his sleeves figuratively rolled up was operating "a proving ground to test actual merchandizing problems . . . so the agency can grasp from experience the situations in which automobile dealers become involved. . . . We don't expect to have model salesmen or angels...