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...East, editors scrabbled desperately through lean morgue folders for facts to show their readers just what calibre folk the Weyerhaeusers are. But in that vast quarter of the Union from St. Paul to Seattle the name needed no exposition. There the abduction of George, great-grandson of Frederick Weyerhaeuser, caused the same kind of sensation the East would feel if Miles, great-grandson of J. Pierpont Morgan, were snatched. For the Weyerhaeusers are the royal family of the U.S. lumber business. Their kingdom, sprawled from Wisconsin to Washington, is a broad 3,000 square miles of the country...
...finest attack of nervous indigestion in all Europe descended last week upon the lean Roman abdomen of Baron Pompeo Aloisi. This hawk-eyed, hollow-cheeked diplomat who since 1932 has served Italy as chief delegate to the League of Nations, found himself rudely summoned from his Geneva apartment, plumped down in a small private dining room before a table full of Swiss food, and talked to, straight from the shoulder, by two nervous, irritable statesmen whose friendship he valued, whose ability he recognized, whose view point he could understand. It was a dreadful meal. The soup got cold, the champagne...
...Belmont president to replace Harvard's aging A. Lawrence Lowell, announced that it would try to make active use of its enormous background of information in actually improving the cinema. Last week the Motion Picture Research Council bestirred itself again and 1) elected Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, long, lean, pouch-eyed President of Stanford University and one-time (1929-33) Secretary of the Interior, president to replace Mrs. Belmont who resigned last June; 2) announced that it would move its main offices westward to San Francisco in order to be near (i.e. 350 mi.) the centre of cinema production...
...their auspices have often supplanted the inadequacies of the local museums and they also have been most useful in supporting, perhaps more in good times than at present, the contemporary artists worthy of patronage. One must, paradoxically enough, be somewhat of an idealist to be a dealer nowadays. The lean years have an unfortunate way of eating into the fat years. But for the man who wants to be connected with art and at the same time earn a living, the dealer's field can often offer quite a satisfactory means of compromise...
Profitable though National Steel has been through the lean years, it will not be so conspicuous when & if real recovery comes to the steel industry. It has prospered through amazing management and strategic plant location, plus the fact that a large part of its output goes into tin cans and automobiles-both steady customers, good years & bad. And it will get more than its share of future prosperity. But U. S. Steel, whose presidency Ernest Tener Weir reportedly refused, can make much more money in a single year than the sum of National Steel's assets...