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Said a puzzled broker last week: "People have been waiting for a reaction. When it doesn't come they get restless and buy anyway." He was talking about a phenomenon that baffled but delighted brokers last week. For three days more than 1,000,000 shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange. More, the market turned in the best Saturday (680,320 shares) since last September. Net result: a three-and-a-half-point rise in the Dow-Jones industrials average, to a six-month high...
Drinking was a trial. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. reported from Miami that he paid $4 for a pony of Bisquit brandy, $2.50 for a Stinger cocktail. One liquor store asked $50 for a thimble-sized bottle of Cointreau. In the Miami Herald a diamond broker advertised a choice selection of bracelets and pendants at from $18,000 to $70,000, tax included...
Sinclair Weeks has been a Republican from his cradle. His father was the late John Wingate Weeks, prosperous Boston broker (Hornblower & Weeks), who went through the House and Senate to become Harding's Secretary of War. In the 1916 G.O.P. convention, John Weeks ran second to Charles Evans Hughes in the balloting...
...reality to radio listeners is something of a mystery even to Author Rhymer. He does not know how he does it, and is inclined to give the credit to actors Bernardine Flynn, a fugitive from Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude, and Art Van Harvey, ex-grain broker, advertising man and vaudevillian, who have played Sade & Vic Gook from the beginning. Says Rhymer: "They could read aloud from the telephone directory and sound entertaining...
...wishing to change the subject, but deeming it the discreet thing to do, your scuttle broker once thought that one of the funniest things he had ever seen was Zemlin, the gremlin, playing tangle-foot with the signal flags not so long ago in S.C.A. Funny, but it ain't half so funny any more. Hanged if that muslin can't get aggravatingly hard to handle with about 270 wolves howling...