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...works for some time, were postponed indefinitely. One of the first and biggest of these was Indianapolis Power & Light, which had successfully floated new common stock in April (TIME, April 15), was ready to refund $32,000,000 of 3¾% bonds just as the panic began. Lehman Bros, put the issue back on ice. W. C. Langley and Halsey, Stuart did the same to $12,660,000 of mortgage bonds of Iowa Southern Utilities. Other long-planned issues, postponed...
...reduction from their true worth" went the cobwebbed contents of the wine cellars of Inisfada, Long Island estate of the late Papal Duchess Genevieve Garvan Brady Macaulay. Items: 1901 Belmont Bourbon, 100 proof (case: $125); 1911 Veuve Clicquot champagne (case: $84); Jiminez Varela, Oloroso 1840 sherry (case: $58); Berry Bros. Prince's Port, 50 years in wood, 34 years in bottle (case: $48); Pre-Expulsion Green Chartreuse, 4 litres only (bottle: $1,25).* Burke's Irish Whiskey, 90 proof, believed laid down in 1901 (case...
Comely Evelyn ("Evie") Robert, wife of Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., secretary of the Democratic National Committee, once kicked a portrait of herself full in the face, once threw a monster birthday party for her horse. In Washington last week Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey circus made a deal with her: if Mrs. Robert appeared in one regular performance, the circus would give a benefit show for sick children. Game, Evie Robert dressed up as an Indian princess, timidly mounted, confidently squatted on the head of a much-enduring pachyderm...
Pleased at having plucked this prize away from Lehman Bros, and Blyth & Co., who bid too low, Tri-Continental announced that its syndicate would keep a third of the shares, sell the rest. Rumor was that Newport News's President Homer Lenoir Ferguson, Annapolis man and head of the firm for 25 years, would step up to board chairman, boss the show from there, while his handsome Vice President Roger Williams, former Navy line officer, would take over as president...
Married. Circusman John Ringling North, 36, president of Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey; and French Cinemactress Germaine Aussey (Germaine Agassis), 30, whom he met while hunting talent in Europe last Christmas; in Philadelphia...