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...City, whose machine, a miniature of Tammany Hall, had backed the Howell candidacy. "Boss" Pendergast used to be a wholesale liquor dealer; now he runs a ready-mixed concrete company. Once his $100,000 home was robbed, burglars taking, among $150,000 worth of other things, 480 pairs of silk stockings just bought for his daughter Marceline's trousseau. Pendergast was reported to have quickly won back his loss at the race track. A hard-boiled politician, he is extremely vulnerable to caricature in the hostile St. Louis Press? bloated face and body, long arms, short spindle legs. To keep...
...agitator or organizer than as a defender of civil rights. For publicly denouncing the Riot Act to strikers from the Passaic, N. J. textile mills in 1926, he was arrested, jailed, held in $10,000 bail. He was again seized last year for picketing with strikers from the Paterson silk mills. Only last October did he formally demit the Presbyterian ministry...
...should bear the name Cutbeard. Small Compton Mackenzie thought it only natural that Dr. Arden, who lived at No. 1, should, with his lanky frame and short frock coat, incarnate the figure 1. Mr. Lockett, living at No. 3, had carroty curls that puffed out beneath his curly-brimmed silk hat "in a very three-like way." And who should live at No. 13 but the highly un fortunate Spinks. He was the impecunious editor of the weekly Bohemia, she was a frowzy woman who messed about her barnlike house in flamboyant silk wrappers, looking "like some tropical bird whose...
...facts were revealed by trial of a suit against the Fokker company by Abercrombie & Fitch, swank Manhattan outfitters. Shortly after their arrival from Ireland in the Southern Cross, Sir Charles and his three companions trooped into Abercrombie's escorted by a Fokker pressagent. Silk pajamas at $15, shoes at $12, brushes, razors, etc. etc. were spread before them. Who would pay the bill-$1,299? The pressagent's answer was a wave of the hand. The Fokker company would see to that...
...strong room, placed there by one of the Egypt's officers named Cameron. The Artiglio's crew last week wished bad cess to Second Officer Cameron. For a decade he had kept to himself the fact that he had also stowed in the Egypt's strong room tons of silk, small arms & ammunition, and paper rupees worth, if they were valid last week, about $14,000,000. Italian divers had performed the prodigious feat of opening the strong room at a 400-ft. depth where pressure was 177.2 Ib. per sq. in. (at the surface it is 15 Ib.). Before...