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Since then Pacific Western (which owns the remainder of E. L. Doheny's former Pacific Coast properties, a 40% slice of the Elwood field, and a half interest in Kettleman Oil Corp.) has been Jean Paul's springboard. Pacific Western is a considerable producer but lacks outlets. In the spring of 1932 J. Paul Getty started collecting the stock of Tide Water Associated Oil Co. (which in 1926 acquired control of Associated Oil Co). Tide Water Associated has plenty of outlets but lacks production. It is also five times the size of Pacific Western. Last week...
...troops and was on the point of annexing Siberia forthwith, and was only stopped by President Wilson, who had the whiphand in the naval bargaining going on among the Allies in Washington. The actions of the last year or so have made it embarassingly obvious that the attempt to slice away this territory may soon be repeated...
...Their gin is Booth's High & Dry, their Scotch Sanderson's Vat 69, their champagne Heidsieck's Monopole, their sherries, ports and Madeiras John Harvey & Sons'. When the Schulte interests sold Overholt and Large distilleries to National Distillers last spring. Park & Tilford received a big slice of the cash but lost their whiskey supply. Since then President Stewart has bought up warehouse receipts for 12,000 bbl. of rye and bourbon which Park & Tilford will sell under their own label, and has also searched for another distillery...
...Recall Council, made up of taxpayers, real estate dealers, small merchants and a good slice of the local press, directed the fight on Mayor Hoan. Put up to oppose him in the recall election was 25- year-old Fortney Stark, onetime secretary of the Real Estate Board. Said he: "This recall movement is the culmination of three years' steadfast refusal to adjust the expenditures of the city government to meet declining revenues." The recallers favored a 25% wage cut for teachers, firemen, policemen...
...Party (by Ivor Novello, produced by William A. Brady and Samuel F. E. Nirdlinger) is a slice of pure snob entertainment off the heel of the loaf. It projects a party given for a famed young London actress after her opening night: Lora Baxter in distant simulacrum of Tallulah Bankhead. Plot: Miss Baxter inveigles her old lover, now married, into kissing her. His little wife sees the kiss and tries to die by gulping all of what she thinks is Miss Baxter's cocaine. But it is only powdered sugar and her swoon is a symptom only of autosuggestion...