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...repeal of the arms embargo. But the net result of all this switching back & forth between war & peace got the market nowhere. One favorite pastime was restless switching from one fancied war baby to another: Wall Street Journal's, Broad Street Gossip Column noted that Sept. 26 one broker got 60% of his commissions from switches, that one customer had switched 15 times in the last two weeks without getting anywhere...
...their inheritance. All of them have made careers for themselves. Most notable is John W., who made a bigger fortune than his father, is now Under Secretary of the U. S. Treasury. Dr. Frederick is a professor at Duke University Medical School; Alex is a leading Winston-Salem stock broker; James is head of Hanes Hosiery Mills Co., largest U. S. women's seamless silk hosiery knitting plant; Ralph is head of a dye and finishing business which he founded...
...Anderson Galleries staff. Mr. Kennerley did a good job of selling the Bishop books. But last year Widow Bishop and Friend Nixon, summering together in Paris, up and sold the Galleries for a mere $175,000 to Milton B. Logan, onetime real-estate agent, and Insurance Broker John T. Geery...
...manufacturers did a thriving business, for the Allies saw that they obtained raw materials. Swiss peasants who owned woodlots found they had a good market for fuel. Electric power derived from Swiss waterfalls was sold to both sides for use in making explosives. Meanwhile, the Swiss did a curious broker business. Germany needed French carbide-cyanamide for saltpeter, French bauxite for aluminum; France needed German iron and steel for emergency railroad tracks and barbed wire entanglements. Swiss dummies arranged the exchange of these commodities, with the tacit consent of the belligerents. The governments did not care whether German soldiers died...
DEATH PAYS A DIVIDEND-John Rhode -Dodd, Mead ($2). Dr. Priestley solves the murder of an impeccable secretary of a London stock broker. Merit: a puzzle you can get your fingers into. Fault: a bit too much police theorizing...