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President of Seatrain Lines Inc. is Graham M. Brush, onetime shipping executive. Since 1929 he has operated Seatrain New Orleans between New Orleans and Havana. Using a giant crane at each terminal, he has cut 40% off the usual stevedore charges, saved two loadings for shippers using rail-water transportation between the U. S. and Cuba. In the past three years Seatrain Lines Inc. has carried twice as much tonnage between New Orleans and Havana as the three competing shipping lines which operate four times as many vessels...
...been able to talk about his trade, to handle words in as lively and vigorous a fashion as he handled musical notes. Berlioz' own Memoirs, according to Critic Newman, had wit, humor, raciness that made the language of his biographers seem like cold tea after champagne. Better to brush up the translation of the Memoirs than do another biography. Publisher Knopf agreed and now comes a noteworthy book with omissions and distortions of the original carefully corrected.- The facts of Berlioz' early life go far toward making his accomplishments remarkable. His father was a smalltown doctor...
...light-o'-love waiting outside the barracks to make him absent-minded during drill. But when he met Florence he did not stay intact long. She was model and mistress to an English painter, Dougherty?not much of a man to look at but good with a brush. Florence was getting tired of Dougherty and Jacques was more attractive. She sent Dougherty off on a trip, invited Jacques to spend his leave with her. When his time was up, Jacques was desperately in love?the more so as he was not at all sure how she felt about...
...discovered at North Haven, Me., only 35 miles from Bar Harbor. Two grave problems might have brought Governor Norman across the Atlantic: reduction of Europe's War debts, and the possible return of Britain to the gold standard. To all Press inquiries Mr. Norman stroked his silver brush, said nothing...
...Exchequer Neville Chamberlain; dignified President of the Board of Trade Walter Runciman whose batwing tie is always straight; undignified Minister of Dominions James Henry ("Jim") Thomas who drops his h's; other delegates, secretaries, stenographers to the number of 130. Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald's younger son, tooth-brush-mustached Malcolm MacDonald, came as the delegation's press contact...