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...Institute's New York headquarters : "Our mills will continue to operate indefinitely. They are now barricaded and ready for a state of siege." That mill-owner was a thickset, thick-spectacled young man worth about $20,000,000, who habitually wears straw-woven slippers and a beltless Norfolk jacket of 1917 vintage. His name is Elliott White Springs...
...butlers have long been butts of humor. Depression or no Depression. Says Hawkins: "The hunger marchers are meeting in the grand ballroom, sir." It is the authors' theory that the nudist craze is simply the result of economic law. The pair on the jacket of their work are clad in barrels with shoulder straps. The wife coyly holds a small nail keg while her surprised husband asks: "Why didn't you tell me, dear...
Late in March, clad in the rough padded jacket and conical cap of a Tibetan coolie, he slipped out of Darjeeling with three porters and one pack pony. When the authorities learned of his disappearance three days later, Wilson was already approaching the Tibetan border. Only the north face of Everest holds any hope of ascent, and the north face lies in Tibet...
...Street scarcely noted the bill's passage. On the New York Stock Exchange stocks were slipping to new lows for the year. Trading volume dwindled to the slowest pace in eleven years. With regulation a fact, weary brokers frankly admitted that in their fight against a Federal strait-jacket they had painted the future somewhat blacker than it was likely to be. Their business would be different under Federal rule but by no means extinct...
...years old, incredibly wise, philosophical, capable, generous. In due time Cartoonist Gray lifted her from squalor by letting her be adopted by a fabulously rich, middle-aged character named Daddy Warbucks. Daddy had fleets of yachts and airplanes, platoons of liveried footmen around his palatial home, wore a dinner jacket and gleaming diamond shirt stud to breakfast. Unspoilable Annie accepted her new fortune only as means to spread happiness among the poor, but Editor Patterson took an instant dislike to Daddy Warbucks. Who, he inquired, could get interested in a rich orphan? He ordered Daddy Warbucks banished. Harold Gray refused...