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...oldest bank in France. Then his method was the old established one of buying out a number of companies in the same industry-shoe companies were at first his favorite-consolidating them, selling stock in the merger at four or five times its actual value. Came the Wall Street crash and World Depression. Banque Adam, Oustric et Cie and other Oustric companies failed for a total of $56,000,000. Among the many roars of protest from bilked investors it was loudly charged that Raoul Peret, Minister of Justice, had been receiving secret sums from the Oustric bank. Prime Minister...
...offstage crockery crash which annually opens the Gridiron Club's dinner was explained this time as: "That's the American people vindicating Mr. Hoover at the polls." General fun-making included a song: "Oh, the moon's behind a cloud along the Wabash, for the Democrats are making all the hay; in the sycamores the G. O. P. is hiding, on the banks of the Wabash hell's to pay." President Hoover, present as No. 1 guest as usual, as usual addressed his news-gathering hosts, as usual eased his feelings in reply to their horse...
...made Artist Arno's reputation. Says Funnyman Robert Charles Benchley, introducing this latest book of Arno drawings: "When they [the Whoops Sisters] bounded, with their muffs and horrid hats, from the pages of the New Yorker, 50 years of picturized joking in this country toppled over with a crash." Now Peter Arno is a New Yorker mainstay, Manhattan's caricaturist-of-the-hour; his unique but not inimitable style is beginning to be copied. Benchley, a serious fellow-humorist, points out that Arno and the New Yorker between them have popularized the one-line joke...
When his second son Harold was killed in an airplane crash two years ago, Inventor Miller Reese Hutchison (dictograph, klaxon horn, acousticon) resolved to make some contribution to safety and efficiency of aircraft. Last week Dr. Hutchison, onetime (1913-17) chief engineer and personal representative of Thomas Alva Edison, brought forth his offering: "Moto-Vita," a device which measures the unburned gases in engine exhaust, enables a pilot to adjust his carburetor accurately in flight for complete combustion of fuel and, consequently, elimination of waste. Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks tried the Moto-Vita on a flight to Memphis, informally reported...
...Harvard band has to pay for its own dress and consequently is very definitely limited; but even if some trumpet-conscious Maecenas gave from what he had left after the Stock Market crash to buy gilded epaulettes and Cossack helmets for the bandplayers, it would be unfortunate if the musicians succumbed to the glamor and the tinsel...