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...himself demobilized in France so he could go to Abyssinia and take pictures of lions. He also photographed war scenes among the Riffs. Then he drifted back to Paris. Armed with the ribbon of the Legion of Honor and an expansive manner, he set himself up in the automobile bumper business which he still runs as a sideline. His next venture was putting prizes-cheap necklaces and silk stockings-in boxes of candy sold in Paris theatres. When the Government stopped this, on the ground that it was a lottery, he used the profits to buy the Salle Wagram, where...
...bumper crop of Harvard freshman was in 1932 when a total of 1167 were entered. In 1934 the class was second in size only to the large group of 1932. The Committee on Admissions aims to keep the class within 1000 because accommodations are available for approximately that number...
Most U. S. parents are only too glad to spread tales of their more or less prodigious youngsters. Out of a current bumper crop, the following are noteworthy...
...levels since September 1931- just before Britain quit the gold standard. More inspiring was a sudden interest in slumbering railroad stocks, particularly those of the transcontinentals. Great Northern blossomed out as the week's second most active stock on the New York Stock Exchange, rising on reports of bumper Northwestern crops to $19.75, up $3.50. Northern Pacific jumped $2.50 to $19.75. Atchison at $47 and Union Pacific at $105.50 were both...
...Primed & pointed was Lawyer Hogan when the oil scandals of the 1920's raised up a bumper crop of rich men who were thoroughly scared. In 1926 Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny reputedly paid Lawyer Hogan $1,000,000 for persuading a Washington jury to acquit him and onetime Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall of a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Government in the leasing of the Elk Hills naval oil reserves. Next year Lawyer Hogan tried & failed to keep the U. S. Supreme Court from indignantly canceling that lease on grounds of conspiracy and fraud...