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...Manhattan, first was Radio-Keith Orpheum, which subsided into receivership early last year. Boom-time theatre rentals got RKO, and even a voluntary reorganization, which gave control to Radio Corp. of America, was of no avail. Quick to join the sad parade was United Cigar Stores, which toppled into bankruptcy in 1932 because its management had been tempted to speculate in real estate as a sideline. Another was Associated Telephone Utilities, which I. C. C. Commissioner Splawn lately held up to Congress as a horrible example of inflated capitalization. Paramount Publix, once believed to be so conservatively managed that Kuhn...
There is a Dickens Fellowship in Boston, apparently a social and literary been drinking cigar-smoking clique. Last night no statement had been released by them on the King's Harvard accent or on the inflection of the Queen of Chelses. Nor has a Mr. Charles Dickens of 44 North Beacon Street had anything to say for himself. That is indeed a pity
...sometimes visited his other offices in the Peoples Gas Building and in the Chicago Civic Opera House, which he built. At 7:00 sharp he dined at home and either went with Mrs. Insull to the opera, of which he was presiding angel, or stayed at home, smoking a cigar, dozing in his chair and going to bed at 9:30 or 10. For the last 20 years he never took any exercise. He never touched alcohol. His only other notable divertissement was his elaborate Hawthorne Farm at Libertyville. It broke his heart that, when he stayed...
...Senate had done its best but the final writing of the Revenue Act of 1934 devolved last week upon ten elderly men gathered out of public sight around a large mahogany table in the gaudy room of the Senate District of Columbia Committee. There amid a cloud of cigar smoke five Senators and five Representatives, conferees for their respective chambers, tackled the serious business of just how far down into the pockets of 125,000,000 inhabitants of the U. S. the Government should thrust its hand during the next fiscal year...
...home in Chateaugay, N. Y. (pop.: 1,100), Warren T. Thayer was amazed to find himself suddenly the object of large public interest. Day after the letters were published, the hearty old Republican was interviewed in his dingy office above a cigar store. "I had about 50 telephone calls last night but I couldn't make out exactly what it was all about," he chuckled. "If I wrote the letters, they certainly have slipped my mind.'' Asked if they might be forgeries, he declared: "Well, now, I don't think anybody would do a thing like...