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...York, he left home at 19, worked as a common laborer before he studied law. Boosted from a city magistrate's insignificance by Tammany and Hearst in their effort to defeat Reformist John Purroy Mitchel, he won the mayoralty election in 1917, fought with his party on transit policy. Finally repudiated by Tammany, which preferred James J. Walker's lighter touch, Hylan ran against Walker and lost in the primaries, was appointed by his successor a Children's Court Justice...
...biggest business in New Jersey, and one of the biggest & best-run in the world, is Public Service Corp. of New Jersey. Built by famed Thomas Nesbitt McCarter, this $700,000,000 utilities holding company, whose wires, pipes and transit lines blanket the nation's sixth richest manufacturing State, has small trouble with its legislators and public utilities commissioners. It bumped into trouble eight years ago, however, when it set out to run a high-tension line through a colony of Poles at Scotch Plains. Some Poles squeezed fancy prices from P. S. C. for their land or permission...
...Denver contingent got off to a bad start when its treasurer, rich young Broker Charles Boettcher II (kidnapped in 1933 by Napper Verne Sankeyj turned up in St. Louis with the tale that he had lost in transit the $100,000 certified check which was to have cinched his city's bid. This yarn fizzled when the folk back home revealed that the check was for only $26,650, that it was never lost, that the episode was "a joke which somebody took seriously." More creditable was Denver's stunt of exporting a bevy of beauties to distribute...
With a perceptible air of dogged determination, Harold Nicolson writes of Morrow's financial work in connection with the mutualization of Equitable Life Assurance Society, the reorganization of New York City's Interborough Rapid Transit, municipal financing, giving the impression that such labors were equally tedious to biographer and hero. Morrow's career in France during the War and as Ambassador seems to interest Nicolson more. In Mexico Morrow ruthlessly broke diplomatic traditions, communicated with the State Department by telephone, buttonholed minor officials, made friends with President Calles, effectively neutralized Mexican hostility...
...cannot give time for an interview," he explained courteously to reporters. "I cannot permit a picture to be taken, either." Thereupon, majestically unaware of a skulking cameraman (see cut') and a dockside loafer who chirped, "Hello, Judge," the handsome, white-whiskered Chief Justice boarded the Great Lakes Transit Corp.'s steamer Juniata, cruised to Duluth, entrained for the West...