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Because kitties have grown so lean, Frank Jay, youngest son of the late Jay Gould, leased his string of Riviera casinos and hotels last week for the pittance rental of 2,000,000 francs ($80,000) per year to a French syndicate in which Mayor Jean Medicin of Nice is prominent. Thus "M'sieu Goolt," who enjoyed poor health last summer, transferred to Frenchmen the thankless job of running these properties on the cheap until kitties grow fat again. Other Gould properties in France, including his paper mill, chocolate factory and the spa Bagnoles de l'Orne, remain...
...usual 5% stock extra. Chesapeake & Ohio maintained its $2.50 rate and is the only U. S. road to pay the same dividend as in 1930. Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific (the "Queen & Crescent") passed its dividend. In 1930 it paid a $50 extra, most of which went into the lean coffers of the B. & 0. and Southern. International Harvester' which last week received $4,000,000 from Russia, maintained its new $1.20 rate. Phillips-Jones (shirts) resumed preferred payments...
...beer. So it was a proud day in the Pabst Corp. when one of their brews won the blue ribbon at the Chicago Fair. So pleased were the Pabsts that they called their leading brew after the Blue Ribbon which they attached to every bottle. When near beer brought lean days a blue strip of paper supplanted the silk ribbon but Pabst stuck to its trademark...
...Lean, long-haired James Maxton, M. P., famed for his fiery leadership of Britain's Laborite left wing, fidgeted like a schoolboy when he was told that Sir John Lavery, famed painter of beauteous women, had called him "the most remarkable man in the House of Commons" and wanted to do his portrait. Protested he: "I've never had my portrait painted, I might not like it, or, which would be worse, I might not be a good sitter. He might make me too like myself...
...slouch in your chair or lean against anything...