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...Nassau Kennel Club, operator of dog races at the Mineola fairgrounds. Year ago Mr. Reed was accused of gambling, but the case was dismissed for want of evidence. Mr. Reed now appealed to Justice Bonynge for a declaratory judgment approving his business. Justice Bonynge wrote a decision which made brisk reading. Excerpts: "The plaintiff operates under an ingeniously devised scheme, deliberately contrived to avoid the pitfalls of the Penal Law. In a word, he sells purchase options upon each dog in a race and, if these are not exercised, buys back such as he may elect at prices determined...
...political sea could not control their follow ers. Charles D. Hilles, boss of New York Republicanism, arrived, for the first time in years, without his delegation in his vest pocket. Fortnight ago one of Mr. Hilles' four delegates-at-large, Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, brisk wife of swank Long Island's Congressman "Bob" Bacon, announced that the women vice chairmen of most of New York's Republican county committees were for Landon and that New York's nominating votes must go to him Or Else. Mr. Hilles maintained a pained silence while newshawks counted almost...
...correspondent was leaving an hour and a half later. Governor Landon called to the family's Negro maid: "Call up and tell 'em to saddle Cy, Myrtle.'' Motoring out to Topeka's democratic Hunt Club, the Governor went for a brisk seven-mile canter. At 6:30 p. m. the four Landons sat down to their usual big dinner. Missing was 18-year-old Peggy Anne, the Governor's daughter by his first wife, who is a junior at Kansas University. As usual, Nurse McCue ate with the family. After dinner the Governor retired...
Founder Queeny died in 1933, leaving Monsanto management to his son, Edgar Monsanto Queeny, who had been president since 1927. Tall, dark, brisk President Queeny lives on a 500-acre farm in St. Louis County, rides horseback every morning before going to work. He boasts that "Monsanto's net contribution to ... unemployment . . . was nil," since he never laid off a man during Depression, has twice as many people working for him now as in 1931. Satisfied, too, is Monsanto's Queeny that the firm's market is so diversified that no more than about 10% of Monsanto...
...Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau announced the largest single offering of Government securities for cash in U. S. peacetime history-a $650,000,000 issue of long-term bonds with a 2¾% coupon and $600,000,000 in five-year 1½% notes. Demand for these was so brisk that Secretary Morgenthau was able to close his books after the first day. An additional $559,000,000 in bonds or notes were offered in exchange for an issue maturing in April, bringing the total operation to $1,809,000,000. Since $450,000,000 of. the cash proceeds...