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...stake had shriveled to some $2,000,000. Earnings for the first six months of that year were a miserly 51? a share. So the towering, hawk-nosed banana man marched into a United Fruit board meeting with a fist full of proxies and stock certificates and shocked eminent Bostonian directors with a curt demand for power. He got it. They made him "Managing Director in Charge of Operations." From Boston to Bogota the United Fruit organization began to learn what it was to be efficient. In the last half of that year United Fruit's income was nearly...
...principal difference between the Californian and Bostonian debutantes, according to Charles Buddy Rogers, who gave a hurried interview to the CRIMSON reporter last night, is that the girls in California believe in living full outdoor lives, with their riding, tennis, swimming, and other activities. "They aren't so much interested in the Junior League, and all that," said Mr. Rogers...
...Bostonian Harvard man, I hall with delight the idea of having a rally Friday night before the Yale game. This rally will fulfill a long-felt need at Harvard. My only fear is that it will be held in such spiritless fashion (because of the celebrated Harvard indifference) as to be completely valueless...
...replace the late "Ike" Hoover as Chief Usher of the White House, President Roosevelt appointed a lanky 36-year-old Bostonian named Raymond Muir. Chief Usher Muir was assistant to "Ike'' Hoover for four years...
...lack of interest in society, so unlike his first wife Consuelo Vanderbilt, who divorced him in 1920 and next year married Lieut.-Colonel Jacques Balsan (as the Duke carefully points out in his Who's Who entry). Directly after Consuelo's divorce, His Grace married cool, beautiful Bostonian Gladys Deacon. While he danced spryly at night clubs, she has stayed at home. When they gave receptions last winter he frequently stood alone at the head of the stairs. During the recent London Season he lived alone at the Ritz Hotel, gave big week-end parties without...