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...Berlin Bureau of the New York Herald Tribune opened a dispatch thus: "What is manifestly the most unfair election campaign that Germany has ever seen is now taking place." ¶ The Berlin Bureau of the London Times flashed that Chancellor Hitler's henchmen "are in a position to brush aside any suggestion that their ambitions can now be thwarted from any quarter, even the highest" and declared that "President von Hindenburg is either a prisoner of the development initiated by him or is a prisoner in the Palace on the Wilhelmstrasse...
President Matthew Chauncey ("Matt") Brush of American International Corp. is a potent booster of gold stocks. To celebrate Ontario's gold boom, fortnight ago he and a platoon of Wall Street operators visited the Porcupine fields as guests of President John P. ("Jack") Bickell of Mclntyre Porcupine Mines and Charles McCrea, Ontario's Minister of Mines. During the inspection tour Mr. Brush got lost for a while in a deep gallery. At a dinner given in a curling rink, Mr. Bickell introduced a miner quartet, grimy, sweat-streaked, dressed in their working clothes: rubber coats, boots, breeches, helmets...
...Matt Brush likes to give parties, with stunts. He collects elephants in all forms, once took a live one to a party. Back in Manhattan last week he fell to thinking what fun the Canada trip had been, especially the miner quartet. Putting deed to thought, he telephoned the mine, arranged to have the singers shipped down by special plane in time to perform next evening at a return dinner to Minister McCrea. A second message stipulated that the miners must remain dirty and wear their work clothes to earn their...
...over the usual number of neophytes. This was attributed to the "strenuous times" in which younger men were pushed ahead to ease the burden of oldsters. Leading the list of men with diversified interests was, as usual, Banker Charles Hayden with 82 directorships. Albert Henry Wiggin and Matthew Chauncey Brush tied with 47. Alfred Emanuel Smith listed seven. Leading those who sit at boardroom tables of subsidiaries and affiliates within one complex industrial empire was Albert John County, vice president in charge of finance and corporate relations of the Pennsylvania R.R. with 121-down five from last year. Close behind...
...issue for Editor Lorimer. On Page 7 illustrating another story appeared a picture of a group of men & women gathered for cocktails before dinner. Their hands, awkwardly poised, were empty. Close inspection revealed the faint outlines of cocktail glasses all but obliterated by a retouch artist's brush...