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...Honest Broker" Pierre Laval. In French eyes the British Royal Family became partisans last week when King George conferred explicitly on the Italo-Ethiopian war with his Ministers at Buckingham Palace (see p. 23) and Edward of Wales emulated his grandsire Edward VII by having Premier Pierre Laval to luncheon on the crisis at Britain's Paris Embassy. Necessarily President Albert Lebrun then had H. R. H. to luncheon and the persuasive charm of Britain's "Empire Salesman" was fresh in the mind of the President of France when he summoned the French Cabinet to hear Premier Laval...
...Insurance Man" was the title of a fond article once written by Will Rogers. Client Rogers' trusted insurance man was immaculate, grey-templed John J, Kemp, broker to many a stage & screen star, member of the Million-Dollar Club, each of whose members sells $1,000.000 of insurance annually. Into successful Insuranceman Kemp's Manhattan office last week marched two detectives to arrest him for forgery and grand larceny. Sighed Prisoner Kemp: "I've been expecting this for seven years." Last year he had received an insurance dividend check for $1,524.51, payable to Mrs. Will Rogers...
...Denver contingent got off to a bad start when its treasurer, rich young Broker Charles Boettcher II (kidnapped in 1933 by Napper Verne Sankeyj turned up in St. Louis with the tale that he had lost in transit the $100,000 certified check which was to have cinched his city's bid. This yarn fizzled when the folk back home revealed that the check was for only $26,650, that it was never lost, that the episode was "a joke which somebody took seriously." More creditable was Denver's stunt of exporting a bevy of beauties to distribute...
Died, Edgar Lewis Marston, 75, retired Los Angeles banker, broker, oil promoter, co-founder of Texas & Pacific Coal & Oil Co. and longtime member of Blair & Co. (later Bancamerica-Blair Corp.), father-in-law of Singer Lawrence Tibbett; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
...announced that she would not leave Milwaukee to do her trading in Manhattan although the Exchange requires all trading to be done by members in person. Instead she will take advantage of Exchange rules which permit a member's agent to buy cocoa beans through a floor broker at a saving of 50% of commission. Said Cocoa Trader Schoenleber: "Every leading chocolate company has a seat on the Exchange. Ours was taken out in my name simply because I happen to be the principal officer of our company...