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...Stalin's proxy, Soviet Premier Vyacheslav Molotov was to meet the Turks at the station. He wondered whether to wear a silk hat or the orthodox Bolshevik headgear, a cap. Mrs. Molotov. young, vivacious and a friend of young, serious Mrs. Stalin, suggested the way out of her husband's dilemma, whispered Moscow gossip. Going to the station and up to the very last moment before the train chuffed in, Premier Molotov wore his cap then whisked it out of sight as a Red Army band struck up the "Internationale" and an entire company of Red Army soldiers snapped...
...last week came Japan's great attempt to stabilize the silk market in the same manner the U. S. Farm Board has attempted to stabilize grains and cotton. The great Japanese surplus of 108,000 bales (14,144,000 Ib.) which has overhung the world's silk markets for many months was sold to E. Gerli & Co., Manhattan silk commission merchants, for $16,320,000, a sum which will come in handy for the war-worried Japanese Government. The price came to $150 a bale against an open market price of $178 for "crack double extra" (basic grade) silk...
...latest example of the inept bogus is a telegram from the Realsilk Hosiery Company to Mr. Sinclair Lewis, published in facsimile in the New Republic. The advertiser offered Mr. Lewis four hundred and fifty dollars and the honor of being included in a series of "dignified advertisements" indorsing silk socks, to which Messers Floyd Gibbous, James Montgomery Flagg, and George Ade had lent their names and faces. The novelist's only duty was to give his photograph and approve the copy; one suspects that the Realsilk Hosiery Company has never seen Mr. Lewis...
...account for him. George F. Breen, famed as a "market maker." Harry Content ("most cold-blooded man in Wall Street"). Arthur William Cutten, once Chicago's best known bull. Marquis de San Miguel. Herbert L. Dillon of Eastman, Dillon &; Co. Stnyvesant Fish. Bertha, Joseph and Paolino Gerli (silk). Thomas Montgomery Howell, Chicago grain operator, who last summer cornered 70%, of the visible corn supply, squeezed shorts, said: "I go along, ask no quarter, don't give any." Coleman F. Madden, known on race tracks as "Handsome Coley," who recently told friends he "preferred Wall Street to the horses...
...onetime Princeton student, is president of the Rhode Island Senate. Last week James Simpson Jr., 27, son of Marshall Field's board chairman, was nominated for Congress in the Illinois Republican primaries (see n. 19). Joseph Clark Baldwin III. 35, Harvard 1920, New York Alderman from the 15th ("Silk Stocking") District, constitutes a unique minority on the Tammany Board. With Lawyer Coudert (see above) and Assemblyman Abbot Low Moffat, 31, Harvard 1923, he leads the younger element in the State Republican Party. A new, popular member of the U. S. House of Representatives is Howard Malcolm ("Mac") Baldrige...