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...Helen Jacobs, threw a handful of rolls at Lester Stoefen, appeared with a wave in his hair. At Germantown, Pa., George Lott and Lester Stoefen retained their U. S. doubles championship by defeating John Van Ryn and Wilmer Allison 6-4, 9-7, 3-6, 6-4. At Rye, N. Y., most of the first-class tennists in the U. S. assembled to put the finishing touches on their games. In the citified suburb of Forest Hills. L. I., groundskeepers rolled, clipped and patted the Stadium courts of the West Side Tennis Club where this week 90 players will start...
...Look at the bathroom!" he exclaimed. It was such a chamber as only ladies of the cinema bathe in. The rites of house-warming were later transferred to the tenth floor of the Raleigh Hotel across the street-where the number of the guests consuming scotch and soda, rye and bourbon, cocktails and sandwiches, mysteriously doubled. In Manhattan two days later the Postmaster General had another proud moment. He and his children, Betty, n, Anne, 8 and Jimmy. 6, boarded the S. S. Conte di Savoia at Quarantine. "Who's there?" demanded a woman's voice when Jimmy...
...catastrophe. On the basis of June 1 estimates the U. S. would have its shortest wheat crop since 1893, not more than 500,000,000 bu. of winter and spring wheat. The winter wheat estimate was 61,000,000 bu. below the previous month's report. Oats, barley, rye and hay were correspondingly about 45% of normal. In spite of the week's rains, wheat was still breaking around $1 on the Chicago Board of Trade and Speculator Jesse L. Livermore was reported to be emerging from his fourth bankruptcy on the crest of the bull market...
Since Depression competition from Wallach's ($25 to $50), John David ($24.50 to $75), Weber & Heilbroner ($30 to $75) and Rogers Peet ($45 to $90) had been too much for Browning, King. President William Hull Browning, whose estate at Rye, N. Y. is filled with exotic birds, had grown less and less active. There were no Kings left in the firm. Two years ago President Browning started to put his company into receivership, listing himself as a $486,000 creditor. The court granted a stay. Mr. Browning moved up to the board chairmanship, put Vice President Edward C. Koempel...
...rye crisis had precipitated the downswing, but something entirely different kept it going. Before grains had had time to recover, word came of President Roosevelt's opposition to any inflationary silver legislation at this session of Congress (see p. 9). The reaction in the grain market was swift. In a single day wheat fell 4⅝,? rye and barley 5?, corn 4?, oats 3?. Traders hastened to announce last week that urgent liquidation of grain holdings was over, that the market would now stabilize...