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Lion Noir is the name of a popular French brand of black shoe polish. Black Lion is also the self-given nickname of the second tallest, darkest-skinned member of the French Chamber of Deputies-Negro Galandou Diouf, 64, Deputy for Senegal, one of the four colored and one of the most colorful men in the French Government...
...dissolve $253,000,000 Alcoa as a monopoly in restraint of trade, the Government filed suit April 23, 1937, kicked off on June 1, 1938. Year later it rested its case, and the defense took the ball. It still has it. In that time the courthouse, which was brand-new when the case was filed, has aged with the processes of jurisprudence; Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and Poland have disappeared; World War II began; two of the Government attorneys took wives; another became a father; two of the original 63 Alcoa defendants died (Vice President Winthrop Neilson and Stockholder Andrew William...
...York City, Transcontinental & Western Air's genial Eastern manager, Stick Randall, went to an auction sale (proceeds to Finland), bought: a Dorothy Lamour sarong (used), $25; Paulette Goddard nightgown (used), $30; three of Jimmy Cagney's neckties (brand-new), $22.* Other Finland fans bought Greta Garbo's evening gloves, Josef Lhevinne's autographed concert handkerchief...
...from grinding penury but worse days lay ahead. Last year, with sales up 5% over 1938, net profits continued downward, wound up at 51? per share. Mrs. O'Brien's dividends were down to $135,000, 70% less than 1930, 55% less than 1933. For this Standard Brands could chiefly blame the fact that few U. S. citizens like the taste of yeast, no matter how many vitamins the Fleischmann brand contains. More than a decade ago, when the U. S. housewife had quit baking bread at home, Fleischmann's swank advertising agency, J. Walter Thompson...
...running order. In many ways it is better kind of neutrality, but its success depends on our learning how to handle the new problems that it will raise, problems for which 1914 can give no precedent or provide no experience. America is like a child with a brand new shiny tool, who has yet to prove his ability...