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...Miami Biltmore Hotel last January two masked men stripped Mrs. Margaret Hawkesworth Bell, onetime Follies dancer, of jewels insured at $185,000, took watch and cash from her companion Harry Content, 74-year-old Manhattan broker. Two petty thieves were shortly picked up, charged with the crime. For lack of identification one was let off. The other was given a short penitentiary sentence. Meantime Miami's chief of detectives turned up with the jewels, announcing that someone had obligingly tossed them into his automobile...
Nearly every lawyer, broker, banker and businessman in the land last week was almost wholly preoccupied with the overthrow of NRA. Full implications of the Supreme Court's decision were by no means clear, and while U. S. Business was more relieved than downright joyful, it was also jittery. Overnight, the stock-market greeted the return of business freedom with an opening rally, then dropped sharply, declined for the rest of the week. Uncertainty over the future of NRA and other New Deal legislation precipitated a general break in commodities. Wheat sank 5? per bu. to the lowest price...
...month when Richard Whitney decided not to seek official renomination for a sixth term and refused to head an independent ticket (TIME, April 15). He did, however, consent to become a candidate for one of the ten regular governorships open each year. Many an Exchange liberal was surprised when Broker Whitney polled 1,146 votes for Governor, 15 more than the vote which elected Charles R. Gay to the presidency. Last week Governor Whitney was elected chairman of the Committee on Bonds...
Married. Maureen Orcutt, 28, four-time Eastern golf champion; and John D. Crews, 38, Miami broker; in Miami...
...program of expansion, considered himself something of an Insull in the grain business. Besides loading himself up with grain elevators, he opened a string of 15 branch offices. Lately he was reported slapping quantities of cash into Polish rye, Argentine corn and oats. Sincerely disliked by many a grain broker for his personality and methods, Manny Rosenbaum was a central figure in the Armour grain scandal of 1925. and the failure of Dean, Onativia & Co., a brokerage house which he helped organize. Last week most of Manny Rosenbaum's negotiations with the Board of Trade and the court were...