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...Oriental young women have ideals distinctively their own appeared in Tokyo, where students at the Government's "schools for prospective wives" lately voted by large majorities that the ideal Japanese suitor is a rather stout man with a steady job who secures his fiancèe through a broker, takes his wife home to live comfortably with his parents and three times per month escorts her to the theatre or a movie...
...position of Dean Plimpton and his associates is essentially that of broker or middleman. He cannot and would not, if he could, pull jobs out of his pockets like a beneficent Santa Claus. But his organization can and does perform all in its power "to help a man help himself...
...promoted the idea of a second professional league, which got quick backing. Burly, pipe-smoking Dr. March is currently its president. Most remarkable of the League's teams are the Yankees and the Tigers, both owned and backed by New York socialites. Owner of the Yankees is Broker James Irving Bush. Among its stockholders is Playwright Sidney Kingsley (Men in White). The team plays in red, white & blue uniforms, has two lady pressagents...
Nevertheless, the drive for advertising continued under the leadership of Maurice L. Farrell, senior partner of F. S. Smithers & Co. and chairman of the Exchange's committee on public relations. An old-time newshawk who was once managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, Broker Farrell last week won a heroic victory. For the first time in 144 years, except for a brief period during the War when it unbent as a patriotic duty to participate in prompting the sale of Liberty Bonds, the New York Stock Exchange published paid advertisements...
...more frequently encountered in Sinclair's fiction than anywhere else. The co-operative at San Sebas tian, Calif, grows out of a discussion in 1932 among a group of unemployed living in shanties they have made of sewer pipes. A one-time prosperous publicity agent, a ruined broker, a "wobbly," a Texas farmer pool their potential resources and, after a meeting, get enough supplies on credit to start work. A one time Socialist and Alaska miner named Sig Soren persuades old Theophilus Fleming, utilities tycoon, that the movement holds no threat to business. The co-operatives grow, getting recruits...