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...heels of this dinner the President and Mrs. Roosevelt held their first state reception for the diplomatic corps. The President and First Lady (in cream brocade) greeted the Cabinet headed by Secretary of War and Mrs. Dern (pale grey satin)-Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins (black velvet) arrived late-and passed into the Blue Room to "receive." Instead of assembling on the stairs and marching counterclockwise (according to precedent) through the first floor, the guests started from the East Room, marched clockwise to the Blue Room. Head of the procession was Dean of the Diplomatic Corps Ahmet Muhtar, Turkish Ambassador...
...watched the faces for signs that would show the near collapse of one or another of the youths. If the audience tired of watching it was amused by seeing two buffoons push one another over, spit at one another, make lewd jokes, or it could eat popcorn and ice-cream. The contestants shuffled on, around and around...
...curse that was ever inflicted upon this country," continued this experienced mixer of drinks. "It had a degrading effect upon everyone. Take my case, for example; I was forced during the plague of prohibition to content myself with the mixing of soft drinks and the dishing out of ice cream. But I haven't forgotten how to mix a single drink, not a one. Off hand, I should say that the Martini and Bronx cocktail are about the most popular drinks thus far, but the majority of the drinking public, on the whole, are sampling the various concoctions...
...move is being made by raising the prices of farm products and thus subsidizing the land-holding peasantry, active backbone, if prosperous, of any regime aimed at safeguarding private property. Dairy products are an indication; butter has risen in price by about one third, cheese by 30 per cent, cream by 25 per cent. Moral: stop the proletariat with the peasantry...
...legitimate liquormen last week sought to hold the positions they had achieved. Square in the front rank were the whiskey men-Seton Porter of National Distillers with more than 50% of all U. S. whiskey in his saddle bags; Lewis Rosenstiel of Schenley Distillers with about 25% and the cream of the imported liquor agencies; the Thompson family with their huge distillery at Owensboro, Ky.; Emil Schwarzhaupt who quit National Distillers to branch out for himself in Bernheim Distilling Co. and who last week shouldered forward by purchasing at government auction 24,000 cases of liquor seized on the high...