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...commonplace for comment by most Washington correspondents are the traditional and legalized forms of petty graft practiced by Senators and Representatives at taxpayers' expense. To initiate voters into this Congressional mystery William Pickett Helm, oldtime syndicate writer, has written Washington Swindle Sheet published this week by Albert & Charles Boni of Manhattan. Taking as his text the official audit of the Senate's miscellaneous outlay for fiscal 1931, Mr. Helm shows how Senators pad their pockets...
...PAST RECAPTURED?Marcel Proust ?A. & C. Boni...
...years ago, with only one more volume to do. So pleased had critics been by his translation that Publishers Chatto & Windus looked high, low and carefully for a worthy successor, finally hit upon Author Stephen Hudson (A True Story). Hudson's version did not satisfy U. S. Publishers Boni, who chose Frederick A. Blossom, Ph. D., ex-professor at Johns Hopkins, to make the U. S. translation ?careful, sober, with occasional Ph. D. irruptions into footnotes...
...Johnson Shepard. In the 45 years of her spinsterhood?she was plain, plump, not much concerned with "Society"?she dedicated herself to good works while her brothers and sister went out in the world. She scarcely approved of Sister Anna, who spent much money, married successively Count Boniface ("Boni") de Castellane and the Due de Talleyrand; or smart Brother Frank Jay twice-divorced, who dabbled (and still does) in French gambling palaces; or her late Brother George Jay, whose second wife (Guinevere Sinclair) bore him three children before he married her in 1921. Helen Gould stayed by her father...
...GREEK-Tiffany Thayer-Boni...