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Your Jan. 13 issue in listing the cars exhibiting at the New York Auto Show omitted the newest member of the General Motors line. Marquette (lowest priced model $990 F. O. B. Flint, Mich.) was introduced June 1, 1929 by the Buick Motor Co. Since that time approximately $23,000,000 have been invested by motorists in new Marquette cars...
Buick Motor Co. Pittsburgh...
Ambassador Sackett will apply himself as a businessman to the expansion of trade. Born in Providence 61 years ago, he was graduated from Brown, became a migrating lawyer, finally settled in Louisville. His corporation practice put him at the head of Louisville Gas Co. He acquired coal mines, dipped into politics, was carried to Washington as Kentucky's Senator by the Coolidge sweep of 1924. Short, sandy, round-stomached, he plodded through his term, rarely made a speech, much less an oration. He was on the way to becoming a "lame duck" in this year's campaign when...
Most potent of the Brothers Pratt is Herbert Lee, board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of New York, lavish benefactor of the Y. M. C. A. Largest and most impressive is his Glen Cove home, "The Braes," a many-chimneyed pile of red stone with white marble trimmings, baronial courtyard, fountains, gardens. In such a magnificent setting the best of French champagne would not be out of place. To the task of procuring some, Herbert Lee Pratt last spring applied himself, with the following results...
...news. Charges were made that the U. S. Customs service at New York was lax and incompetent. The Pratt champagne case was cited as proof. The yeast behind the bubbling was, of course, Politics. Against Mr. Pratt were these undenied charges: He had arranged to pay the Go-Bart Co. of New York $14,000 to smuggle in $25,000 worth of champagne purchased in France. The U. S. agent for the champagne was Count Maxence de Polignac, member of one of France's oldest noble families who owns the Pommery & Greno caves at Rheims. (The Count, already indicted...