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...Denver's high-school girls were virgins and campaigned nationally for Companionate Marriage, Denver cast him out, has all but forgotten him. Denverites like direct action. Last week six of them pledged half a million dollars' worth of property to bail out John B. Williams, an aged merchandise broker who killed his son-in-law for beating his wife...
Burly Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, eight-time U. S. woman's tennis champion, revealed that she and her husband, Broker Franklin I. Mallory, are now "poor," that she will soon open a sports shop for women in Manhattan. For six weeks late ly Mrs. Mallory had a job as saleswoman in Saks Fifth Avenue, swank department store. "Well, they fired me. I guess I wasn't so much a drawing card as they hoped I'd be ... you're soon forgot...
...bonds which Joseph A. Sisto, a broker interested in securing taxicab legislation, gave the Mayor three years ago were bonds of Reliance Bronze & Steel Co. and convertible into stock. Reliance Bronze & Steel Co. sold the city $43,500 worth of traffic lights for Fifth Avenue last year...
Twenty years ago, when Amy McCormick was still Mrs. Edwin Shields Adams, wife of a broker now deceased, she sat down one day before an easel in the art class of Painter Ralph Clarkson. After a few hours' diligent effort, she found Tutor "larkson looking over her shoulder. "How long have you been studying?" asked he. She replied: "Since this'morning." "It looks it," observed Tutor Clarkson. Last week Painter Clarkson went to Mrs. Mc-Cormick's exhibition, found that in the last two decades his onetime pupil had learned much. She had studied under William Penhallow Henderson and several...
...which to make coffee and stews, a few carried clubs. The latter served as "military police." They were supposed to suppress vandalism, prevent radical speechmaking, see that none of the company begged or got drunk. One man carried clippings to show that before the Depression he was an Omaha broker who was ordered to pay $45,000 alimony. All were War veterans with honorable discharge papers, all were jobless. By appropriating rides on freight trains most of them had come from as far as Portland, Ore. They hoped to get to Washington and demand an immediate cash settlement...