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...Manhattan's Bonwit, Teller & Co. (clothes), wife of Investment Truster Floyd B. Odium of Atlas Corp. Legal counsellor is Mrs. Jean Nelson Penfield, New York attorney and onetime suffragette. National Director is Radio Lecturer Cathrine Curtis who claims she first decided to educate women investors when she overheard a dowager exclaim at a party: "Commodities are like utilities, I mean they are something like options. I have a box full of them...
...quickly as if she had overheard the salesman, Brooklyn's Assistant School Superintendent Lizzie Rector picked up the challenge. Despite the typewriter interests, cried she, handwriting must never be driven from the schools...
...opinion of her and her suit. Halting a No. 3 iron in midair, Mrs. Doubleday pricked up her ears, listened, flushed, stormed off the tee. Last week, with the McCormick suit settled for $65,000, she turned on Major Fleischmann. Suing in Manhattan for slander, she told what she overheard: "On the practice tee, Major Fleischmann, in a loud voice, stated . . .: 'What do you think of our blackmailing tart? No lady ever brings a suit for breach of promise. Only a chorus girl does this'". Argued Mrs. Doubleday: "This statement was intended to impute unchastity...
This remark was overheard by a beefy quartermaster of the S. S. Deutschland. "Let them say what they like," he grunted. "They will vote all right when they get there! Heil Hitler...
...news that we should like to send on to the bookies in New York is the conversation overheard yesterday. It ran something like this: "You know this football team is fighting mad. They're out to beat Holy Cross and then the rest of the season will take care of itself...