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17 picks · 1930–1935

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FOR THE DEFENCE.
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PROFILE of Edward J. Reilly, Bruno Hautpmann's lawyer. Reilly has defended all except three of Brooklyn's lady murderers in the past twenty years. …

POET IN STEEL.
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PROFILE of Othmar Hermann Ammann, Chief Engineer of the Port of N. Y. Authority, designer and builder of the George Washington Bridge, at 179th Street, the…

PROFILE Glorifier of the Alphabet
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Profile of Frederic William Goudy who is consider one of the greatest type-designers in the world, and all those who take joy in beautiful books are deeply…

The Culture Business-II
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Tells more about James B. Pond, the platform impresario who uses showmanship to make lecturing pay. The two men whom he was never able to lure on to the …

The Culture Business-I
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Profile of James B. Pond who is the man behind the Pond Bureau, the boss impresario of the lecture racket, and the only candidates for greatness he …

Grand Sachem
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Tells of Dr. Thomas Darlington who has been six years the Commissioner of Health in New York. Describes his life which has been one of exuberance and …

On the Square
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Tells of the biggest retailing department store, Klein's on Union Square and some interesting facts about it and the man that is its owner, S. Klein. …

St. George of Manhattan
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Profile of William Travers Jerome who along with Roosevelt and Bryan in 1906 was one of the three best known men in America. Now, twenty-five years later, …

Good Morning, Judge
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Profile of Joseph E. Corrigan, well-known judge who is the only magistrate who is in the Social Register. Started his career in 1903, when he entered …