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Died. John F. Barrett, 73, longtime Chicago grain trader, member of the Chicago Board of Trade since 1881; in Chicago. He was famed as a weather guesser, basing his guesses on the direction of the prevailing winds on the Catholic prayer & fast days before each solstice & equinox (ember-days). He bet the temperature would not go to zero between Dec. 20, 1930 and March 1, 1931, collected $1,250 from fellow Board members...
...result of the Blackpool Conference was to approve Things-As-They-Are-And-Were. But newshawks gleefully reported what many called "the typical Tory tirades." Example: frosty Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, warmed up to the point of flaying Free Trader Lloyd George for his recent attacks on the tariff results of the Ottawa Conference thus: "Even if a cat is pulled out of the cream jug by the tail, as was Lloyd George, that is no reason why it should spit in the cream...
This is no disparagement of the late Capt. Robert Dollar, a wire-edged Scotch trader if there ever was one. Having known all three men I have often wondered what would have happened if they had engaged in a tripartite deal and who would have brought in the bacon. A venturesome bookmaker might have laid odds at 21/2 to i and take your pick. My money would have gone down on Dolbeer, with many mental reservations...
...session was marked by the appearance of two women who lost money in the market. The Senators listened to Miss Grace Van Braam Roberts of Highland, N. Y., "farmer," suffraget and clubwoman. She was no ordinary sheared, bleating lamb but a shrewd woman who was once a very active trader, whose father was the late Charles Henry Roberts, president of the Carolina Central Railroad and whose brother is Owen F. Roberts, former independent member of the New York Stock Exchange. The bone of her contention was that in 1921 Hayden. Stone & Co. had "induced" her to buy 150 Atlantic, Gulf...
...theatres and the costs of running them than to reduce the costs of making pictures to fill them. Producers last year tried to make pictures for $200,000 each. Except Scarf ace, completed early in the year, there were almost none which cost more than $300,000; none, like Trader Horn, which cost $1,000,000 or more. All producers cut office salaries; most producers tried to cut the salaries of employes under contract. George Arliss and Richard Barthelmess reduced their own salaries. James Cagney last week quit Hollywood because his pay was not increased (see p. 26). Also last...