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These steps were taken by one Harry M. Blair, shrewd Manhattan broker, one-time Y. M. C. A. campaigner, a cash collector for Mr. Hoover during the campaign. The matter came last week to the attention of Assistant Postmaster-General W. Irving Glover, secretary of the committee in charge of the inaugural. Mr. Glover quickly announced that Mr. Blair had no official standing. He wondered how Mr. Blair obtained the bigwig list, started an investigation...
Married. Allan A. Ryan Jr., Manhattan broker, grandson of the late great Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan; and Janet Newbold, Washington socialite, daughter of Business Manager Fleming Newbold of the Washington Evening Star; in Washington...
Married. Ernestine Altman, orphan niece of famed Manhattan Lawyer Max D. Steuer ("Belasco of the Bar"); and Leonard Golding, Manhattan broker; in New York City Hall, by Mayor James John Walker. It was the fourth time Mayor Walker had performed such a ceremony. He absented himself from a discussion of city transit unification. Said he: "Since this is another unification job, I don't think I can be accused of shirking the city's business...
Engaged. Helen Wills, 22, holder of U. S., English and French tennis championships, fair-to-middling painter; to Frederick Shander Moody Jr., 27, stock broker of San Francisco, fair-to-middling tennis player.* They first met at Cannes in 1926. Said Miss Wills last week: "I will play tennis as long as I can hold a racquet." The London Evening News talked to Miss Wills in Berkeley, Calif., over long distance telephone to get the story...
...trunk of today might mucH resemble the trunk of yesterday were it not for Innovation Trunk Co. and Innovator Seymour W. Bonsall. In 1897 Mr. Bonsall was a Manhattan stock broker, but interested in inventions as well as in the market. To him, in a dream, came the vision of a trunk which should be a portable closet rather than a travelling chest of drawers. Awakening, Mr. Bonsall remembered his dream, built the first wardrobe trunk. It looked much like the old style bulbous trunks, but in its interior were racks for hangers, thus embodying the essential principle...