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...shoots himself. Sent to jail for manslaughter, she reënters the house on 56th Street 20 years later as a lady black-jack dealer, plays cards against a grown daughter who has been taught to think her mother dead. When the daughter (Margaret Lindsay) shoots Peggy's partner (Ricardo Cortez) to avoid paying her losses, Peggy is again on hand, ready to take what the cinema calls "the rap." Typical shot: handsome Kay Francis explaining to Margaret Lindsay that "I'm the best friend you ever...
...appoint a brilliant financial technician as his right hand man: Earle Bailie of Manhattan. Although really shouldering the job of Undersecretary, Earle Bailie was named merely a "special assistant." Hence he does not have to be confirmed by the Senate which might not look with favor on 1) a partner in the private banking firm of J. & W. Seligman; 2) the creator and head of Tri-Continental Corp., one of Wall Street's biggest investment trusts (original capital $100,000,000); 3) a man who likes nothing better than to spend two months of the year as lord...
...breast. A friend told her about Dr. Harlow R. Street, who conducts a "cancer sanatorium" at his Washington home, has a "secret salve" to devour cancer. Against her physician-husband's advice Mrs. Britten went to the Chevy Chase, Md. home of Dr. Street's partner, Dr. Nathan Sherwood Ferris, for treatment. She spent nine weeks there, two days in a Baltimore hospital before she died...
...knowing what to do with the derelict Trust, bankers called in the great engineering firm of Sanderson & Porter to find out whether it should be salvaged or scrapped. A younger brother and junior partner of the founder Hobart Porter was assigned the job. Blond, dapper, fond of horses and tennis, Seton Porter graduated from Yale in 1905. A good engineer, he was assistant manager of a construction company on the West Coast before he joined his brother's firm. He recommended that the Trust be salvaged. The bankers were willing to take his expensive advice if he would...
When Seton Porter sensed the groundswell of Repeal, things began to hum. One wintry day in 1932 he called up Henry Mason Day, the big, grizzled, taciturn partner of Redmond & Co. who loyally went to jail with his good friend Harry Ford Sinclair for jury-shadowing. Mr. Day picked up one of the seven telephones on his desk and listened to Mr. Porter's suggestion that National Distillers, aside from the dynamite of Repeal, was a pretty good thing at around $16 per share. Mr. Day cocked an eye at the ebony elephant on his desk. Mr. Porter needed...