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...motors of potent men to the Italian castle of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. George L. Harrison, Governor of the Bank, had called an emergency meeting, Acting Secretary of the Treasury-Mills had come over from Washington. They called in Owen D. Young, expert, then Morgan Partner S. Parker Gilbert, expert. Governor Eugene Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board was handy at his home in Mount Kisco if needed. No statement was given out during the Wall Street meeting, but reporters hazarded that the questions being put to Messrs. Young & Gilbert were: Would $300,000,000 really...
...Paris Joseph Lebrix (former flying partner of Dieudonne Coste) and Marcel Doret, famed stunt flyer, tuned up their Dewoitine monoplane The Hyphen for an eastward flight around the world in four hops...
...been on the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange of which he was once (1927-28) president. He is a director of several sugar companies including Punta Alegre and Warner. He is president of the latter company. He heads the sugar-broking firm of Lowry & Co., one of whose partners is Horace Havemeyer. Partner Have-meyer's father was once president of American Sugar Refining Co.. a company which in 1925 was reported to have offered Sugarman Lowry $100,000 a year to become its president. Sugarmen last week recalled the coincidence that when Mr. Lowry declined, the position...
...contract bridge, a player inevitably supplies his partner with information as to the cards he holds by the way in which he bids. Systems-such as the Vanderbilt convention, the various methods of Lenz, Work, Whitehead, et. al.-are codified kicks under the table, designed to make bidding reveal as much information as possible. There are now so many different systems, i.e., codes of giving information, that bridge players, to avoid dispute though not confusion, are compelled to preface their sittings with protracted conferences to determine which code...
...join Bridge Headquarters, Inc., because it was a "purely commercial proposition," called it a "merger of ex-authorities" said there was no need for a universal system since 90% of U. S. bridge players already used the Culbertson system. Further, he offered to play, either with his wife as partner or with any partner of Lenz's choice, Expert Lenz and any partner Expert Lenz might select, 200 rubbers of contract bridge, bet $5,000 to $1,000 that he and his partner would win. Said Expert Culbertson: ''I do not deny this merger . . . might work...