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...Dealer Jonas is by no means the only person to discover that money can be made from the U. S. habit of paying fantastic prices in boom times, panic selling in lean years. Dealers in English furniture and antique silver have been shipping their best pieces back to London for over a year. A spokesman for Yamanaka & Co. said last week that three years ago there was scarcely an important Japanese print left in Japan. Wall Street collapsed, and Tokyo dealers began quietly to buy. Today, even with the collapse of the yen, rare Utamaros and Yeishis bring far more...
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...Slater, Mo., Santa Claus. 45, farmer-minister, father of eight, had a lean Christmas, answered all his mail...
...women's track & field championships in Evanston last summer, a lean, rangy, dark-haired girl from Dallas, Tex. won six first places. She amassed for her team-of which she was the only member-a total of 30 points, to 20 points for a team of 22 which finished second. Overnight Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, a typist for Dallas Employers' Casualty Co., had become a national sports figure. At the Olympic Games two weeks later she won two first prizes (javelin throw, 80-meter hurdles), a second in the high-jump when her best jump was disqualified...
State Candidate. Last week President-elect Roosevelt was reported culling his list of Cabinet possibilities. Most vital appointment he has to make is that of Secretary of State, because, weak on foreign affairs, he needs an internationally equipped mind to lean on. Most often mentioned for this No. 1 Cabinet post is Owen D. Young. But Mr. Young's wife is a chronic invalid and last week Mr. Young was ordered to be examined in Federal Court on his connection with the bankrupt Insull Utility Investments-a connection which would help no public career before a catawauling Senate. Another...