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Referring to your issue of April 3, p. 18, in your article regarding the visit of Japan's Mr. Yosuke Matsuoka, you described him as being "whisked from the waterfront to the echoing calm of Fifth Avenue's swank (but bankrupt) Hotel Pierre...
...behalf of our client, the Hotel Pierre, I wish to say that they are no longer bankrupt, but were reorganized and reincorporated as of Feb. 1, 1933. Mr. Charles Pierre, as President of the new corporation, is still actively in charge of the management of the hotel. Your phrase "echoing calm" also seems untoward, as the hotel is 60% occupied...
...found the capitalist system in the U. S. broken down, the farmers "enslaved, bankrupt and in armed revolt." The country has been "run into the ditch" by financiers and bankers who are "95 percent lunatics." Under the same guidance, the U. S. had cornered the world gold supply and "broken the bank of England...
Rotter. The Rotter Brothers, Jewish theatre owners and musicomedy producers, once most prosperous, now bankrupt, fled Berlin in January. In the Principality of Liechtenstein last week they were ambushed by six young Germans, apparently Nazis. Alfred Rotter and his wife jumped over a cliff to death to avoid kidnapping. Franz Rotter, handcuffed, sprang from the kidnappers' car, broke his shoulder...
...crowd of about 300 assorted Chinese and Communists. Patrolman John Ello took into custody one Lin Naphin, 32, who was clutching a loaded pistol in his overcoat pocket. Smiling politely, Statesman Matsuoka was whisked from the waterfront to the echoing calm of Fifth. Avenue's swank (but bankrupt) Hotel Pierre. There he sat down under a portrait of China's late great Li Hung-chang and awaited the Press...