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...mold, notably Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell (National City) for his extremely bullish utterances, his apparent unawareness of what was going on, just before the late great stockmarket crash. Otto Munson, umbrella-rib manufacturer, sells his business for $20,000 and buys everything he can on margin. Unable to go wrong in the kind of market he has to deal with, he begins to clean up, and before a year is out is worth (on paper) over a million. Of not particularly stern moral fibre, he lets his good fortune unravel him further. His wife leaves him. he becomes a come...
...toad puddle of Lakeville," he could arrange situations to suit himself. Ineligible but attractive young men were shipped off to faraway posts; harmless, ambitious eligibles were invited to dinner. Father Plimsoll did not even shrink from employing a detective. But his best-laid plans did not so much go wrong as turn inside out, a trick of Fate's (or Author Kahler's) which enabled him to refrain from beating his breast-in fact, to receive congratulations on his shrewdness-when, an unwilling wedding guest, he heard the loud bassoon. Author Hugh MacNair Kahler, 47, is of that...
...police station "for investigation, suspected of being wanted by the California authorities." Then he summoned a lawyer, issued a statement: "I never saw Mooney until . . . told by an officer that this was [he]. . . . My testimony in the various cases was untrue and false. I desire to undo the wrong done by me in sending Mooney to prison, regardless of personal consequences." He repeated his story of being kept and entertained by the San Francisco police at a hotel prior to testifying...
...Said Charles E. Sorenson, general manager of the Ford Motor Co., back from a European business survey: "If the Reds are as explosive and can do what they boast in America, then there is something wrong with our system." The Ford Motor Co., he revealed, has no fear of Communist propaganda, employs many a Communist in its factories...
...York furniture shop of his own under the name of Charles of London. Sir Joseph's son-in-law, Armand Lowengard manages the Paris branch. But though Ernest, Edward and Benjamin are partners in the company, actively engaged in its traffickings, the public is not far wrong in believing that Sir Joseph is Duveen Brothers. He is president ("head factor") of the firm. Employes are unable to recall a single internationally important deal which any of the other brothers put through. They hasten to add that once the Dreyfus collection arrives in the U. S. it will...