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...William Freiday and other partners of the brokerage firm of J. Robinson-Duff & Co. applied to New Jersey for the incorporation of an exchange at Newark to be known as the National Stock Exchange. They announced the intention of offering seats to members of the New York Stock Exchange, reported that 15 brokerage houses were prepared to take memberships...
...most important society colyumist is Ethel Whitmire of the Hearst Examiner. She is related to Publisher Hearst, was his mother's constant companion for years. On the ChronicL- Mildred Brown is assisted by Mrs. Oscar Sutro Jr. of the sugar-&-mining Sutros. Nearest to a dictator is Agnes Duff Fenwick of the Scripps-Howard News, divorced wife of Lumberman Hugh Fenwick. Los Angeles looks to Mrs. Juana Neal Levy of the Times for social guidance. Hearst's Examiner has "Cholly Angelo" (Mrs. Jean Loughborough) and gives prominent bylines to Princess Marie de Bourbon, cousin of Spain...
Among lawyers puisne is pronounced "puny" and means Associate. Last week Puisne Judge Lyman Poore Duff became the Canadian equivalent of Charles Evans Hughes, through his elevation to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, succeeding Rt. Hon. Francis Alexander Anglin, brother of Actress Margaret Anglin, who died recently. Even in Canada the appointment of pink & white Judge Duff did not receive the attention that a new Chief Justice in the U. S. would have. Canada's Supreme Court is the highest court in the Dominion, but Canadian subjects still have the right to appeal from...
When one considers these minute cameos with reference to Mr. Duff Cooper's production, he is led to suspect that the inspiration which fostered the writing of this book was very similar to that which would lead an elephant into a drawing room. The shoddy jacket blatantly insistent upon the literary value of sex and gambling is, of course, designedly misleading. But there is little relief between the covers. In his three hundred and fifty pages, Mr. Cooper apparently sets out to give a history of France over a period of eighty years, and to place incidental emphasis on Talleyrand...