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...Otto Adolph Wittwer is not content with the way things are going. He has money, inherited from his Swiss immigrant parents. At 45, he has a nice little business of his own in Seattle, selling hair rinses and shampoo (which sweetly scent his two-story building). He is married to a beauteous exactress wife. Nevertheless, Mr. Wittwer is not content with the way things are going...
...ignorant, the vagrant, the parasitic, dominated elections at the expense of home owners. Mr. Wittwer sat down and thought till he thought up a cure: give an extra vote to every man who can show a tax receipt for a home or a piece of property.* The name Otto Wittwer gave to his system for knocking out the politicians : the One-Two Plan...
Last week in Southern California, where panaceas grow like seedless oranges, his One-Two Plan began to bloom, on the radio, on the platforms of clubs and societies, in gatherings of small rural home owners, little business men. Mr. Wittwer aimed to complete a nationwide organization by 1940. Soon Otto Wittwer hopes to be more content with the way things are going...
...business went to hell in the Depression. But Collector Bishop was rich enough to stand the Galleries' losses, ready enough to leave its conduct to President Hiram Parke and Vice President Otto Bernet. When he died in 1935, sales were picking up again. But two years later his beneficiaries, Widow Amy Bend Bishop and Friend-Secretary Edith Nixon, set up a new regime and made Employe Logan, who stood high in their graces, secretary-treasurer. Hiram Parke and Otto Bernet resigned. Most of the Galleries' experts, auctioneers and appraisers resigned with them...
...season was disastrous. Cream of the auction crop went to the new galleries which Hiram Parke and Otto Bernet had started around the corner. With a big overhead, Logan and Geery staggered along on what Geery could raise and borrow - and allegedly by appropriating clients' money...