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...years ago he bought a Belgian middleweight prizefighter named Rene DeVos, introduced him to U. S. pugilism at a smart hotel party. Plug-ugly guests disappeared with quantities of silverware and fine wine, did their best to make off with a piano. In 1929 he and some associates plopped a swank Casino in the middle of Manhattan's Central Park. Accommodated with a modest rental by Mayor "Jimmy" Walker, the Casino has been under fire almost ever since for its undemocratic prices, its oversized profits...
...fact that they had sold more stock than Stutz ever issued embarrassed the sharpers not a whit. Burke merely pulled its market plug, plummeting Stutz stock lower than it was before they started. On the ground that the installment purchases were now under-margined, the retailing houses "sold out" their customers accounts (i. e. pocketed the deposits). Profits amounted to $800,000. Early this year Burke put on another Stutz campaign that netted $100,000 and was set for a third when SEC intervened. On the basis of its findings SEC will seek indictments...
...weeping on an embroidered chaise longue. The picture's smart decor changes abruptly and briefly when, to prove that hard-working Lawyer Boles knows how to relax, an Easter scene at an orphan asylum is injected, wherein Boles, dressed in a magician's garb complete with plug hat, wig, barbershop mustache and false nose (see cut), does tricks for the inmates. Silliest sequence: Miss Muir being sent to jail for contempt when, quizzed by Boles in a divorce action for which he is the plaintiff's attorney, she refuses to divulge to whom Boles's wife...
Last February the U. S. Supreme Court laid down the law of the 59? dollar in a decision as full of holes as Swiss cheese. Last week President Roosevelt decided it was time to plug up the holes with some new legislation. Two of the most serious implications in the law as the Supreme Court laid it down were as follows...
...minute broadcast because he feared his column might suffer. He quit drinking long ago, likes lots of candy and indulges a passion for loud clothes which first manifested itself at the age of 8 when he pedaled a velocipede down the streets of Gallipolis,* wearing a plug hat. He once brought 16 bottles of perfume from France for his friends, kept them...