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Blond, virile, a superb horseman, good tennis player and keen at bridge, Whiskey Salesman von Ribbentrop shortly recouped his fortunes by marrying, in 1920, Fräulein Anna Henkell. daughter of a German maker of champagne which Son-in-Law von Ribbentrop proceeded to popularize in the dry U. S. by shrewdly dealing on Canadian soil with bootleggers' agents...
...last week the plant shut down. For two days Anna Schlorer Smith shut herself up at home and brooded. Then she took a razor, slashed her throat, both wrists. A maid discovered her just in time to keep her from bleeding to death...
...Anna Schlorer grew up to marry & divorce a man named Smith, inherit & run Mrs. Schlorer's, Inc. with her brother Charles. They signed up promptly with NRA, got Blue Eagle No. 13 in the Philadelphia district. But when the Supreme Court shattered NRA last month the in employes of Mrs. Schlorer's, Inc. were informed that they were going back on the old wage & hour schedules-a 50-hr., 5½-day week with pay for the 85 factory girls down from $13 to $10 per week. The employes struck...
...Anna Schlorer Smith told the Press that the company had lost $50,000 because of NRA wages & hours, was facing bankruptcy because of cut-throat competition. She warned employes that they might lose their jobs for good unless they accepted the new scale. The employes stayed...
...major Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes prizes of $148,500 each on the Epsom Derby, seven were won by Americans. Most preposterous winner was a Brooklyn woman named Anna Hyman, wife of the proprietor of a picayune leather company, who has made a practice of investing $20 in every sweepstakes she has heard about, with no success whatever. Informed that Bahram had won, Mrs. Hyman revealed that she had sold a half interest in her ticket for $40,000. Said she: "I'd certainly like to travel on that big ship, Normandie...