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...favor of the long skirt have paved the way for the waltz. Furthermore, the middle-aged and elderly are tired of being ignored as in the passing era of jerky jazz dancing and are insisting upon steps that do not try to make a jumping jack of the broker and high kicking gal out of the grandmother...
...little shooting before seeing his new granddaughter (see p. 21). John Pierpont Morgan was at Gannochy Lodge and Clarence Hungerford Mackay at Hunt-hill, Brechin. Bernard Baruch could not stay but Silkman Emil Stehli and Charles Steele of the House of Morgan were shooting. Other U. S. gunners-Broker Andre Pillot, Banker Edward Shearson, Red D Line's Frederic Dallet-were talking about their first week's bags. Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes left for an archaeological tour in France after a week in Perthshire, in high fettle because he had potted eleven birds the first morning and shot...
...President Hoover last week named Herman Murray Jacoby, wealthy German-born Manhattan bond broker, to represent him as a special ambassador next November when Ras Taffari. Regent of Ethiopia, becomes H. I. M. Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia. To Addis Ababa, remote Abyssinian capital, for the African coronation Mr. Jacoby will take a full diplomatic staff, including Brig. General William Wright Harts and Charles Lee Cooke, the State Department's ceremonial officer. One reason why the U. S. should participate so elaborately in an Abyssinian ceremony: J. G. White Engineering Corp. of New York has a large contract with...
...small unit in a field where big units prosper most, Transcontinental Oil Co. has had a varied career. Less familiar is it to stock-traders for its record of deficits in five of the last ten years than for its stock's puzzling ups & downs. Many a broker has warned: "The way of the Trans-guesser is hard." But lately Transcontinental had done better, its first-quarter earnings showing a 100% gain over last year's. Credit for this is due to Amos L. Beaty who resigned as chairman of Texas Corp. last year to take the same...
Died. Myron C. Wick, 38, Ohio broker, plaintiff in the suit to enjoin the merger between Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and Bethlehem Steel Corp.; of pneumonia, a week after he had been taken ill in court, at Youngstown...