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...University of Cornell Law School, where he was selected for the All-American Basketball team. He was elected six times to the New York State Assembly, and was personal secretary to President Roosevelt during his term as Governor of New York State. Recently he has been appointed Assistant Solicitor General in the Department of Justice in the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He resides in Washington...
...genius in addition to his Horatio Alger traits, there was only the circumstantial evidence of his colossal success in dollars. From the time he began his first important publishing venture, The Tribune & Farmer, in Philadelphia in 1879 (this followed a series of smaller-scale efforts, jobs as advertising solicitor, circulation hustler, etc. etc.) to the day when he could address an audience of 8,000,000, Publisher Curtis never swum: a crusader's sword. Like himself his publications were simple, eminently respectable, ultra conservative, 100% American. It was Publisher Curtis' idea that the Satevepost, which he bought...
...fisherman, the antithesis of the savage angler in I Cover the Waterfront (see above), and his daughter who inherits ?2,000,000. With her small mongrel Michael, she goes to England to live in a manor house where she squabbles with the butler, falls in love with a young solicitor, is informed that her father is dead. By the time this report is exploded, she has learned enough about the depraved habits of the aristocracy to scuttle happily back to Ireland...
...manner of a court gazette. The President, members of the Cabinet, Supreme Court, Senate, sometimes of the House of Representatives, get top-column position. The meticulous Star's Mrs. Sally Pickett goes the whole hog, prints an entire column of names of guests (down to the assistant solicitor of the Department of Labor) at a tea given by the Minister of the Dominican Republic. The Post's society editor is the most authoritative. She is blonde Evelyn Peyton Gordon, daughter of the judge who sent Oilman Harry Sinclair to jail. Her assistant is Sydney Sullivan, daughter of arch...
...Senior Vice President Edward M. Durham Jr. from $40,000 to $19,200; of Fred Page Johnson, vice president (finance de- partment) from $22,300 to $13,800. Other salaries fixed by the Court: for vice presidents $6,000 to $18,600, for secretary & treasurer $6,000, for general solicitor $4,800. President Baldwin, rated one of the ablest operating men in railroads, sent to the "Mop" by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. to help straighten out its affairs, still gets $12,750 a year as executive committee chairman of affiliated Denver and Rio Grande, $6,000 as president of Missouri Pacific...